Proverbs 24:28
Good News Translation
Don't give evidence against others without good reason, or say misleading things about them.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

Contemporary English Version
Don't accuse anyone who isn't guilty. Don't ever tell a lie

New American Bible
Do not testify falsely against your neighbor and so deceive with your lips.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.

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Proverbs 14:5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a deceitful witness uttereth a lie.

Proverbs 19:5,9 A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies, shall not escape. . . .

Proverbs 21:28 A lying witness shall perish: an obedient man shall speak of victory.

Exodus 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Exodus 23:1 Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person.

1 Samuel 22:9,10 And Doeg, the Edomite, who stood by, and was the chief among the servants of Saul, answering, said: I saw the son of Isai, in Nobe, with Achimelech, the son of Achitob, the priest. . . .

1 Kings 21:9-13 And this was the tenor of the letters: Proclaim a fast, and make Naboth sit among the chief of the people; . . .

Job 2:3 And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without cause.

Psalm 35:7,11 For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto destruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul. . . .

Matthew 26:59,60 And the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death. . . .

Matthew 27:23 The governor said to them: Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying: Let him be crucified.

John 15:25 But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: they hated me without cause.

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Ephesians 4:25 Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another.

Colossians 3:9 Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

Revelation 22:15 Without are dogs and sorcerers and unchaste and murderers and servers of idols and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

Context
Further Sayings of the Wise
27Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house. 28Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.29Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render to every one according to his work.…
Cross References
Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another.

Leviticus 6:2
Whosoever shall sin, and despising the Lord, shall deny to his neighbour the thing delivered to his keeping, which was committed to his trust; or shall by force extort any thing, or commit oppression;

Leviticus 6:3
Or shall find a thing lost, and denying it, shall also swear falsely, or shall do any other of the many things, wherein men are wont to sin:

Leviticus 19:11
You shall not steal. You shall not lie: neither shall any man deceive his neighbour.

Proverbs 25:18
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour, is like a dart and a sword and a sharp arrow.

Proverbs 26:19
So is the man that hurteth his friend deceitfully: and when he is taken, saith: I did it in jest.

Proverbs 24:27
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