Exodus 20:16
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 23:6You shall not shift the judgment of your poor in his cause.
Leviticus 19:16You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your people: neither shall you stand against the blood of your neighbour; I am the LORD.
1 Samuel 22:8That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that shows me that my son has made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or shows unto me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
Psalms 15:3He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbour, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbour.
Proverbs 10:18He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.
Proverbs 19:5A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks 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 →