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Proverbs 24:28
28Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not 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
26An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips. 27Finish your outdoor work and get your fields ready. After that, build your house. Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips. 29Do not say, “I will do to him what he has done to me; I will pay him back for his deed!” 30I passed by the field of the slacker, by the vineyard of one lacking judgment.
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 14:5A trustworthy witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.
- Proverbs 19:5A false witness will not go unpunished, one who breathes lies will not escape.
- Proverbs 21:28A false witness will perish, but a man who hears will speak forever.
- Exodus 20:16“Do not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- Exodus 23:1“Do not to spread a false report. Do not join hands with the wicked by becoming a malicious witness.
- 1 Samuel 22:9Then Doeg the Edomite, who was standing among Saul’s courtiers, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob—to Ahimelech son of Ahitub—
- 1 Kings 21:9She wrote in the letters saying, “Proclaim a fast and set Naboth at the head of the people.
- Job 2:3Then Adonai said to the satan, “Have you noticed My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and spurns evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, though you incited Me against him to ruin him without any reason.”
- Psalms 35:7For without cause they hid their net for me, and without cause they dug a pit for my soul.
- Matthew 26:59Now the ruling kohanim and all the Sanhedrin kept trying to get false testimony against Yeshua so they could put Him to death.
- Matthew 27:23But Pilate said, “Why? What evil has He done?” But they kept shouting all the more, saying, “Let Him be executed!”
- John 15:25So is fulfilled the word written in their Scripture, ‘They hated Me for no reason.’
- Ephesians 4:25So lay aside lying and “each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another.
- Colossians 3:9Do not lie to one another. After all, you have taken off the old self with its practices
- Revelation 21:8But for the cowardly and faithless and detestable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars—their lot is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
- Revelation 22:15Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral and the murderers and 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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