Matthew 27:23

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.

A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”

Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;

for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”

Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

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

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

“If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your body guard, and honored in your house?

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

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

He said to them the third time, “Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him.”

the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.

Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”

After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!” He said, “Here I am.”

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

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

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”

Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” Then Samuel said, “Speak; for your servant hears.”

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?”

Now when Jehoram had risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.

but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute like Ahab’s house did, and also have slain your brothers of your father’s house, who were better than yourself,

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

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

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

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

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.

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

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

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

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:

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

A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says Yahweh, “and I will contend with your children’s children.

“If he fathers a son who is a robber who sheds blood, and who does any one of these things,

who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.

But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord.

I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

But Paul’s sister’s son heard they were lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

“This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.

But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.

I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction before the accused has met the accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.

But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

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

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

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.”

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.