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Proverbs 14:5

A true witness does not say what is false, but a false witness is breathing out deceit.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Falsehood;   False Teachers;   The Topic Concordance - Lying/lies;   Witness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Deceit;   Faithfulness;   Lying;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crime;   Slander;   Witness;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
An honest witness does not deceive,but a dishonest witness utters lies.
Hebrew Names Version
A truthful witness will not lie, But a false witness pours out lies.
King James Version
A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
English Standard Version
A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.
New American Standard Bible
A trustworthy witness will not lie, But a false witness declares lies.
New Century Version
A truthful witness does not lie, but a false witness tells nothing but lies.
New English Translation
A truthful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.
Amplified Bible
A faithful and trustworthy witness will not lie, But a false witness speaks lies.
World English Bible
A truthful witness will not lie, But a false witness pours out lies.
Geneva Bible (1587)
A faithfull witnes will not lye: but a false record will speake lyes.
Legacy Standard Bible
A faithful witness will not lie,But a false witness breathes out lies.
Berean Standard Bible
An honest witness does not deceive, but a dishonest witness pours forth lies.
Contemporary English Version
An honest witness tells the truth; a dishonest witness tells nothing but lies.
Complete Jewish Bible
An honest witness will not lie, but a false witness lies with every breath.
Darby Translation
A faithful witness will not lie; but a false witness uttereth lies.
Easy-to-Read Version
A good witness is one who does not lie. A bad witness is a liar who cannot be trusted.
George Lamsa Translation
A faithful witness will not deceive; but a false witness will utter lies.
Good News Translation
A reliable witness always tells the truth, but an unreliable one tells nothing but lies.
Lexham English Bible
A faithful witness does not lie, but he who breathes out falsehood is a witness of deceit.
Literal Translation
A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness breathes lies.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A faithfull wytnesse wyl not dyssemble, but a false recorde wil make a lye.
American Standard Version
A faithful witness will not lie; But a false witness uttereth lies.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
A faithful witness will not lie; but a false witness breatheth forth lies.
King James Version (1611)
A faithfull witnesse will not lye: but a false witnesse will vtter lyes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
A faithfull witnesse will not dissemble: but a false recorde wyll make a lye.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A faithful witness does not lie; but an unjust witness kindles falsehoods.
English Revised Version
A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness uttereth lies.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A feithful witnesse schal not lie; a gileful witnesse bringith forth a leesing.
Update Bible Version
A faithful witness will not lie; But a false witness utters lies.
Webster's Bible Translation
A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
New King James Version
A faithful witness does not lie, But a false witness will utter lies.
New Living Translation
An honest witness does not lie; a false witness breathes lies.
New Life Bible
A faithful man who tells what he knows will not lie, but the man who is not faithful will lie.
New Revised Standard
A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A faithful witness, will not deceive, but a false witness, uttereth deceitful things.
Douay-Rheims Bible
A faithful witness will not lie: but a deceitful witness uttereth a lie.
Revised Standard Version
A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.
Young's Literal Translation
A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.
THE MESSAGE
A true witness never lies; a false witness makes a business of it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A trustworthy witness will not lie, But a false witness utters lies.

Contextual Overview

5 A true witness does not say what is false, but a false witness is breathing out deceit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 14:25, Proverbs 6:19, Proverbs 12:17, Proverbs 13:5, Proverbs 19:5, Proverbs 19:9, Exodus 20:16, Exodus 23:1, 1 Kings 21:13, 1 Kings 22:12-14

Reciprocal: Proverbs 6:17 - lying Proverbs 11:13 - he Proverbs 24:28 - not Jeremiah 23:28 - speak

Cross-References

Genesis 14:10
Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.
Genesis 14:11
And the four kings took all the goods and food from Sodom and Gomorrah and went on their way.
Genesis 14:20
And let the Most High God be praised, who has given into your hands those who were against you. Then Abram gave him a tenth of all the goods he had taken.
Genesis 14:23
That I will not take so much as a thread or the cord of a shoe of yours; so that you may not say, I have given wealth to Abram:
Genesis 15:20
And the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
Deuteronomy 1:4
After he had overcome Sihon, king of the Amorites, ruling in Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, ruling in Ashtaroth, at Edrei:
Deuteronomy 3:11
(For Og, king of Bashan, was the last of all the Rephaim; his bed was made of iron; is it not in Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, measured by the common cubit.)
Deuteronomy 3:20
Till the Lord has given rest to your brothers as to you, and till they have taken for themselves the land which the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of Jordan: then you may go back, every man of you, to the heritage which I have given you.
Deuteronomy 3:22
Have no fear of them, for the Lord your God will be fighting for you.
Joshua 12:4
And the land of Og, king of Bashan, of the rest of the Rephaim, who was living at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A faithful witness will not lie,.... For that would be contrary to his character as faithful; and as he will not witness to a falsehood upon oath in a court of judicature, so neither will he tell a lie in common conversation. This may be applied to Gospel ministers, who are witnesses of Christ; the Gospel they preach is a testimony concerning him, and they bear a faithful witness to the truth; nor will they, knowingly and willingly, deliver out a falsehood, or a doctrinal lie, since "no lie is of the truth", 1 John 2:21; the character of a faithful witness is given to Christ, Revelation 1:5; who is a "witness" of his father's love and grace, of his mind and will, and of the doctrines of the Gospel relating to himself, and the method of salvation by him; and he is "faithful" to him that appointed him; nor can he nor will he lie, for he is "truth" itself;

but a false witness will utter lies; or "blow" e them out, and spread them abroad in great plenty; he will not stick to tell them, and, having no conscience, will utter them as fast as he can, with all boldness and confidence; for one that fears not to bear testimony to a falsehood upon oath, will not scruple to lie in common talk. Or the words, "nay" be rendered, "he that uttereth lies [will be] a false witness"; he that accustoms himself to lying, in his conversation with men in private company, will become a false witness upon occasion in a public court of judicature: such an one is not to be depended on; lesser sins lead to greater, lying to perjury. So false teachers, and the followers of the man of sin, speak lies in hypocrisy, doctrinal ones, which they are given up to believe; and such as do so are false witnesses, deceivers, and antichrist.

e יפיח "efflabit", Montanus; "efflat", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.


 
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