Deuteronomy 19:15
One witness shall not rise up against any man, whatsoever the sin or wickedness be: but in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall stand.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
16If a lying witness stand against a man, accusing him of transgression,
Cross References
Numbers 35:30The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man.
1 Kings 21:10And suborn two men, sons of Belial against him, and let them bear false witness: that he hath blasphemed God and the king: and then carry him out, and stone him, and so let him die.
Matthew 18:16And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand.
John 8:17And in your law it is written, that the testimony of two men is true.
1 Timothy 5:19Against a priest receive not an accusation, but under two or three witnesses.
Revelation 11:3And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 19:15-21
False Witnesses. ( b. c. 1451.) 14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it. 15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. 16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is… Read the whole commentary →