Deuteronomy 5:20

Neither shall thou bear FALSE witness against thy neighbor.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

In Context

19Neither shall thou steal.

21Neither shall thou covet thy neighbor's wife. Neither shall thou desire thy neighbor's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is thy neighbor's.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:1Thou shall not take up a FALSE report. Do not put thy hand with the wicked man to be an unrighteous witness.

1 Kings 21:13And the two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. And the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth cursed God and the king. Then they carried him forth o

Proverbs 19:5A FALSE witness shall not be unpunished, and he who utters lies shall not escape.

Malachi 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the FALSE swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the f

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 5:7-23

6 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me. 8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: 9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them… Read the whole commentary →

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