7Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
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Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
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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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