Deuteronomy 19:16

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

Then Jeremiah said, “That is false! I am not defecting to the Chaldeans.” But he didn’t listen to him; so Irijah seized Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!”

she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought a Hebrew in to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’

Set two men, wicked fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”

The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

Yahweh, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud.

He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

“When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.

and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,

while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”

Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.