a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
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a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
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A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
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A false witness that breatheth out lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
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- Proverbs 19:5 A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
- Proverbs 6:14 in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
- James 3:18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
- Psalms 27:12 Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
- Proverbs 19:9 A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.
- Deuteronomy 19:16-20 If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother, then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you. Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.
- Proverbs 25:18 A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
- James 3:14-16 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth. This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
- Proverbs 12:17 He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.
- Proverbs 22:10 Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
- Proverbs 26:20 For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
- Acts 6:13 and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
- 2 Timothy 2:23 But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
- 1 Kings 21:10-15 Set two men, wicked fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.” The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them. They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones. Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned, and is dead.” When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned, and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”
- Proverbs 16:28 A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
- 3 John 1:9-10 I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say. Therefore if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.
- Exodus 20:16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
- Exodus 23:1 “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
- Psalms 35:11 Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
- Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
- Matthew 26:59 Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, neighbors.
Or, neighbors.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 6:19 A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and…
Pro 6:19 A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Ver. 19. A false witness that speaketh lies.] Heb., That blows abroad lies, - as with a pair of bellows; that vents them boldly and freely in open court, in the face of the country. These knights of the post can lend an oath for a need, as they did Jezebel against Naboth, and, like those in the history, will not stick to swear that their friend or foe was at Rome and Interamna both at once. God oft thundereth against such, to show his utter hatred of them, and hath threatened that the winged flying book, that is full of curses, within and without, shall overtake them ere they get home, and shall rest in the midst of their houses, to consume them with the timber thereof, and the stones thereof. {Zec 5:4}
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And him that soweth discord.] {See Trapp on "Pro 6:14"} {See Trapp on "Pro 6:16"} Unity among brethren is fitly compared to a cable rope, which will not easily break; but if once cut asunder, it is hard to tie a knot upon it. What ill officers then are breedbates and boutefeus [firebrands]!
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain That speaketh lies, to wit, in judgment; whereby this…
That speaketh lies, to wit, in judgment; whereby this differs from the former lying, Pro 6:17. Brethren; dear relations or friends.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain My son, keep thy father's commandment,.... These are not…
My son, keep thy father's commandment,.... These are not the words of David to Solomon continued from Pro 4:4; but the words of Solomon to his son; and not to his son only, in a strict natural relation, but to everyone that came to him for and put himself under his instruction; and to everyone that stood in such a relation to a religious father; for not the divine Being, the Father of all, is here meant, according to some Jewish writers; though the commandment no doubt is the commandment of God taught by godly parents; or such a system of precepts that is founded upon and agrees unto the revealed will of God, and which being so should be laid up and kept in the heart, and not forgotten; and should be observed and attended to and obeyed throughout the whole course of life, as if it was the commandment of God himself; and indeed it is no other than that which pious parents train up their children in the knowledge of, instil into them, and urge upon them the observance of;
and forsake not the law of thy mother; the same as before, and which is mentioned to show that the same respect is to be had to a mother as to a father, the commandment and law of them being the same, and they standing in the same relation; which yet children are apt to make a difference in, and while they stand in awe of their father and his precepts, slight their mother and her directions, which ought not to be. Some understand this of the congregation of Israel, as some Jewish writers; and others of the church of God, the mother of us all.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain speaketh--literally, "breathes out," habitually speaks (Psa 27:12; Act 9:1).
speaketh--literally, "breathes out," habitually speaks (Psa 27:12; Act 9:1).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. See Pro_6:12; Pro_6:14 notes.
19. See Pro_6:12; Pro_6:14 notes.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The sixth thing is perjury. A false witness that…
The sixth thing is perjury. A false witness that speaketh lies; literally, he that breathes out, or utters, lies as a false witness. So the Vulgate, proferentem mendacia testem fallacem. The Hebrew puakh is "to breathe," "to blow," and in the hiph. form, which is used here (yaphiakh, hiph. future), it is "to blow out" or" utter," either in a bad sense, as in the present instance, and in Pro_6:19 Pro_14:5 Pro_19:5, Pro_19:9; (cf. Psa_10:5 Psa_12:5) or in a good sense, "to utter the truth," as in Pro_12:17. Lies; Hebrew k"zavim, plural of kazav, "falsehood," "lying". (cf. Pro_21:25) A false witness (Hebrew, ed-k"zavim), as in margin, "a witness of lies." The expression, "as a false witness," as it appears in the original, is explanatory, and indicates the particular aspect under which the speaking of lies is regarded. Lying in its more general sense has been already spoken of in ver. 17. The vice which is here noted as odious to God is expressly forbidden in the moral code, "Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbour". (Exo_20:16) But this, though the chief, is only one view of the case. Perjury may be employed, not only in ruining the innocent, but also in screen-tog the guilty. "Much hurt," says Muffet, in loc., " doth the deceitful and lying witness, for he corrupteth the judge, oppresseth the innocent, suppresseth the truth, and in the courts of justice sinneth against his own soul and the Lord himself most grievously." "He that speaketh lies as a false witness," again, may be the vile instrument in the hands of unscrupulous and inexorable enemies, as those employed against our Lord and Stephen. Perjury, too, destroys the security of communities. The shipwreck of society which it occasions may be seen in the frightful misery which ensued when the system of delatores was not only countenanced, but encouraged under the Roman empire. Truly speaking, he that lies as a false witness must be hateful to God. And he that soweth discord among brethren; the seventh and last thing in the enumeration, but not, as Delitzsch holds, the ne plus ultra of all that is hated of God. It closes, as in ver. 14, the series, but with the addition "among brethren;" thus emphatically stigmatizing the conduct of that man as diabolical who destroys the harmony and unity of those who ought to live together in brotherly affection, and who disturbs the peace of communities.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 6:19 A false witness perverts the truth in court…
6:19 A false witness perverts the truth in court or in everyday conversation.
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