Psalms 27:12

Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

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

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.’

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.

How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?

He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,

He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.

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

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

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

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

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

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.

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

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

For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.

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

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

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

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

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

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

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

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

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.’ ”

I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up Yahweh’s inheritance?”

and David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless Yahweh’s inheritance?”

Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

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

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

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

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

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.

Yahweh has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

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

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

“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),

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.”

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.”

The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.

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

But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.

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!”

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

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.

Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.

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

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

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!’

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.

Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.

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.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

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

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.

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,

I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

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

Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,

“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.