Exodus 20:16

Thou shalt not beare false witnes against thy neighbour.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

In Context

15Thou shalt not steale.

17Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house, neither shalt thou couet thy neighbours wife, nor his man seruant, nor his mayde, nor his oxe, nor his asse, neyther any thing that is thy neighbours.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:6Thou shalt not ouerthrowe the right of thy poore in his sute.

Leviticus 19:16Thou shalt not walke about with tales among thy people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord.

1 Samuel 22:8That all ye haue conspired against me, and there is none that tellerh mee that my sonne hath made a couenant with the sonne of Ishai? and there is none of you that is sory for me, or sheweth mee, that my sonne hath stirred vp my seruant to lie in wayte against me, as appeareth this day?

Psalms 15:3He that slandereth not with his tongue, nor doeth euill to his neighbour, nor receiueth a false report against his neighbour.

Proverbs 10:18He that dissembleth hatred with lying lips, and he that inuenteth slaunder, is a foole.

Proverbs 19:5A false witnes shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes, 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 →

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