Deuteronomy 5:20

Do not give false witness against your neighbour;

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

In Context

19Do not take the property of another.

21Or let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife, or his house or his field or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is your neighbour's.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:1Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.

1 Kings 21:13And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.

Proverbs 19:5A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.

Malachi 3:5And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

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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