Exodus 20:16
Thou shall not bear FALSE witness against thy neighbor.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 23:6Thou shall not distort the justice [due] to thy poor in his case.
Leviticus 19:16Thou shall not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people, neither shall thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor. I am LORD.
1 Samuel 22:8that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none who discloses to me when my son makes a league with the son of Jesse. And there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my serva
Psalms 15:3he who does no slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor,
Proverbs 10:18He who hides hatred is of lying lips. And he who utters a slander is a fool.
Proverbs 19:5A FALSE witness shall not be unpunished, and he who utters lies shall not escape.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 20:13-18
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 13 Thou shalt not kill. 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15 Thou shalt not steal. 16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. We have here the laws of the second table, as they are commonly… Read the whole commentary →