Christian Standard Bible
Proverbs 24:28
28Don’t testify against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
Proverbs 24:28 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
- New International Version (NIV)Do not testify against your neighbor without cause— would you use your lips to mislead?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, For would you deceive with your lips?
Context of Proverbs 24:28
26He who gives an honest answer gives a kiss on the lips. 27Complete your outdoor work, and prepare your field; afterward, build your house. Don’t testify against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips. 29Don’t say, “I’ll do to him what he did to me; I’ll repay the man for what he has done.” 30I went by the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of one lacking sense.
Read all of Proverbs 24Proverbs 24:28 word by word
אַל־תְּהִ֣י עֵד־חִנָּ֣ם בְּרֵעֶ֑ךָ וַ֝הֲפִתִּ֗יתָ בִּשְׂפָתֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 24:28
- Proverbs 14:5An honest witness does not deceive, but a dishonest witness utters lies.
- Proverbs 19:5A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.
- Proverbs 21:28A lying witness will perish, but the one who listens will speak successfully.
- Exodus 20:16Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.
- Exodus 23:1“You must not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked to be a malicious witness.
- 1 Samuel 22:9Then Doeg the Edomite, who was in charge of Saul’s servants, answered, “I saw Jesse’s son come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.
- 1 Kings 21:9In the letters, she wrote: Proclaim a fast and seat Naboth at the head of the people.
- Job 2:3Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited me against him, to destroy him for no good reason.”
- Psalms 35:7They hid their net for me without cause; they dug a pit for me without cause.
- Matthew 26:59The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false testimony against Jesus so that they could put him to death,
- Matthew 27:23Then he said, “Why? What has he done wrong?” But they kept shouting all the more, “Crucify him!”
- John 15:25But this happened so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled: They hated me for no reason.
- Ephesians 4:25Therefore, putting away lying, speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, because we are members of one another.
- Colossians 3:9Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices
- Revelation 21:8But the cowards, faithless, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars — their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
- Revelation 22:15Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Commentaries on Proverbs 24:28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 28Be not a witness - Do not be forward to offer thyself to bear testimony against a neighbor, in a matter which may prejudice him, where the essential claims of justice do not require such interference; and especially do not do this in a spirit of revenge, because he has injured thee before.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 28Deceive not with thy lips - Better, wilt thou deceive with thy lips?Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 28-29Verses 28-29 There are three defaults in a witness pointed out.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 28-29Saying 4: Do not twist the truth, even for revenge (see Proverbs 6:19; 12:17; 14:25; 19:28; 24:23–24; 25:18).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2828. Do not speak even truth needlessly against any, and never falsehood.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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