Exodus 23:1

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

“You shall not steal.

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”

then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

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.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

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

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.

Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.

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

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.”

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

“ ‘You shall not steal. “ ‘You shall not lie. “ ‘You shall not deceive one another.

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, he has not put his hand on his neighbor’s goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;”

The king said, “Where is your master’s son?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.’ ”

he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

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

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

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

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

An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.

A false witness will perish. A man who listens speaks to eternity.

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

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “ ‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’

Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let’s do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.