Deuteronomy 5:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Deuteronomy 5:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 20:16
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Exodus 23:1
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Proverbs 19:9
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
Proverbs 19:5
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
Proverbs 6:19
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-22)

Here is the repetition of the ten commandments, in which observe, 1. Though they had been spoken before, and written, yet they are again rehearsed; for precept must be upon precept, and line upon line, and all little enough to keep the word of God in our minds and to preserve and renew the impressions of it. We have need to have the same things often inculcated upon us. See Phil. 3:1. 2. There is…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

6-20. I am the Lord thy God--The word “Lord” is expressive of authority or dominion; and God, who by natural claim as well as by covenant relation was entitled to exercise supremacy over His people Israel, had a sovereign right to establish laws for their government. [See on Ex 20:2.] The commandments which follow are, with a few slight verbal alterations, the same as formerly recorded (Ex 20:1-17…