1Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; …
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; …
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Here are, I. Cautions concerning judicial proceedings; it was not enough that they had good laws, better than ever any nation had, but care must be taken for the due administration of justice according to those laws. 1. The witnesses are here cautioned that they neither occasion an innocent man to be indicted, by raising a false report of him and setting common fame against him, nor assist in the…
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