Exodus 20:16
Do not give false witness against your neighbour.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
In Context
15Do not take the property of another.
Cross References
Exodus 23:6Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.
Leviticus 19:16Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.
1 Samuel 22:8That all of you have made designs against me, and not one of you gave me word when my son made an agreement with the son of Jesse, and not one of you has pity for me or has made my eyes open to the fact that my servant has been moved by my son against me, as at this day?
Psalms 15:3Whose tongue is not false, who does no evil to his friend, and does not take away the good name of his neighbour;
Proverbs 10:18Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.
Proverbs 19:5A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.
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 →