Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit.
A truthful witness saves lives, but one who breathes out lies is deceitful.
A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.
Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
A false witness will perish, but the word of a man who hears will endure.
A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.
having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
and they set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law,
Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death,
Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and captain over your bodyguard, and honored in your house? Is today the first time that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father, for your servant has known nothing of all this, much or little.”
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