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Proverbs 24:28
Don't talk about your neighbors behind their backs— no slander or gossip, please. Don't say to anyone, "I'll get back at you for what you did to me. I'll make you pay for what you did!"
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Christian Standard Bible®
Don’t testify against your neighbor without cause.Don’t deceive with your lips.
Don’t testify against your neighbor without cause.Don’t deceive with your lips.
Hebrew Names Version
Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.
Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.
King James Version
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
English Standard Version
Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
New American Standard Bible
Do not be a witness against your neighbor for no reason, And do not deceive with your lips.
Do not be a witness against your neighbor for no reason, And do not deceive with your lips.
New Century Version
Don't testify against your neighbor for no good reason. Don't say things that are false.
Don't testify against your neighbor for no good reason. Don't say things that are false.
Amplified Bible
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, And do not deceive with your lips [speak neither lies nor half-truths].
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, And do not deceive with your lips [speak neither lies nor half-truths].
World English Bible
Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.
Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Be not a witnes against thy neighbour without cause: for wilt thou deceiue with thy lippes?
Be not a witnes against thy neighbour without cause: for wilt thou deceiue with thy lippes?
Legacy Standard Bible
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause,Nor deceive with your lips.
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause,Nor deceive with your lips.
Berean Standard Bible
Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
Contemporary English Version
Don't accuse anyone who isn't guilty. Don't ever tell a lie
Don't accuse anyone who isn't guilty. Don't ever tell a lie
Complete Jewish Bible
Don't be a witness against your neighbor for no reason — would you use your lips to deceive?
Don't be a witness against your neighbor for no reason — would you use your lips to deceive?
Darby Translation
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and wouldest thou deceive with thy lips?
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and wouldest thou deceive with thy lips?
Easy-to-Read Version
Don't speak against someone without a good reason, or you will appear foolish.
Don't speak against someone without a good reason, or you will appear foolish.
George Lamsa Translation
Be not a false witness against your neighbor; and do not deceive him with your lips.
Be not a false witness against your neighbor; and do not deceive him with your lips.
Good News Translation
Don't give evidence against others without good reason, or say misleading things about them.
Don't give evidence against others without good reason, or say misleading things about them.
Lexham English Bible
Do not be a witness without cause against your neighbor nor deceive with your lips.
Do not be a witness without cause against your neighbor nor deceive with your lips.
Literal Translation
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, or deceive with your lips.
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, or deceive with your lips.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Be no false wytnesse agaynst yi neghbor, & hurte him not wt yi lyppes.
Be no false wytnesse agaynst yi neghbor, & hurte him not wt yi lyppes.
American Standard Version
Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; And deceive not with thy lips.
Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; And deceive not with thy lips.
Bible in Basic English
Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.
Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
King James Version (1611)
Be not a witnesse against thy neighbour without cause: and deceiue not with thy lippes.
Be not a witnesse against thy neighbour without cause: and deceiue not with thy lippes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Be not a false witnesse against thy neighbour, and speake no falsehood with thy lippes.
Be not a false witnesse against thy neighbour, and speake no falsehood with thy lippes.
English Revised Version
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Be thou not a witnesse with out resonable cause ayens thi neiybore; nether flatere thou ony man with thi lippis.
Be thou not a witnesse with out resonable cause ayens thi neiybore; nether flatere thou ony man with thi lippis.
Update Bible Version
Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause; And do not deceive with your lips.
Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause; And do not deceive with your lips.
Webster's Bible Translation
Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; and deceive [not] with thy lips.
Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; and deceive [not] with thy lips.
New English Translation
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your words.
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your words.
New King James Version
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause,For would you deceive [fn] with your lips?
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause,For would you deceive [fn] with your lips?
New Living Translation
Don't testify against your neighbors without cause; don't lie about them.
Don't testify against your neighbors without cause; don't lie about them.
New Life Bible
Do not speak against your neighbor without a reason, and do not lie with your lips.
Do not speak against your neighbor without a reason, and do not lie with your lips.
New Revised Standard
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Do not become a needless witness against thy neighbour, so mightest thou open too wide thy lips:
Do not become a needless witness against thy neighbour, so mightest thou open too wide thy lips:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.
Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.
Revised Standard Version
Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
Young's Literal Translation
Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.
Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, And do not deceive with your lips.
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, And do not deceive with your lips.
Contextual Overview
28Don't talk about your neighbors behind their backs— no slander or gossip, please. Don't say to anyone, "I'll get back at you for what you did to me. I'll make you pay for what you did!"
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
not: Proverbs 14:5, Proverbs 19:5, Proverbs 19:9, Proverbs 21:28, Exodus 20:16, Exodus 23:1, 1 Samuel 22:9, 1 Samuel 22:10, 1 Kings 21:9-13, Job 2:3, Psalms 35:7, Psalms 35:11, Psalms 52:1, *title Matthew 26:59, Matthew 26:60, Matthew 27:23, John 15:25
deceive: Ephesians 4:25, Colossians 3:9, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:15
Reciprocal: Genesis 34:13 - deceitfully Leviticus 6:2 - deceived Deuteronomy 16:19 - respect Judges 16:10 - now tell me Proverbs 12:17 - but
Cross-References
Genesis 24:55
Her brother and mother said, "Let the girl stay a while, say another ten days, and then go."
Her brother and mother said, "Let the girl stay a while, say another ten days, and then go."
Genesis 31:33
Laban went through Jacob's tent, Leah's tent, and the tents of the two maids but didn't find them. He went from Leah's tent to Rachel's. But Rachel had taken the household gods, put them inside a camel cushion, and was sitting on them. When Laban had gone through the tent, searching high and low without finding a thing, Rachel said to her father, "Don't think I'm being disrespectful, my master, that I can't stand before you, but I'm having my period." So even though he turned the place upside down in his search, he didn't find the household gods.
Laban went through Jacob's tent, Leah's tent, and the tents of the two maids but didn't find them. He went from Leah's tent to Rachel's. But Rachel had taken the household gods, put them inside a camel cushion, and was sitting on them. When Laban had gone through the tent, searching high and low without finding a thing, Rachel said to her father, "Don't think I'm being disrespectful, my master, that I can't stand before you, but I'm having my period." So even though he turned the place upside down in his search, he didn't find the household gods.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause,.... Unless forced unto it, except there is some urgent reason for it; not upon any trivial account, or in any frivolous matter; never appear forward and eager to bear witness against him, and, whenever obliged to it, be not a false witness, but speak truth, whether thy neighbour be a friend or a foe;
and deceive [not] with thy lips; by bearing a false testimony, the judge, thy neighbour and thyself; for though men may be deceived, God cannot: or, shouldest thou do so, "thou wouldest break" and cut him to pieces "with thy lips" x; which is the sense of the words according to R. Judah, as Ben Melech relates.
x ××פ×ת×ת ×שפת×× "et ne atteras labiis tuis", Vatablus; "et ne comminuas eum labiis tuis", Syriac version.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Deceive not with thy lips - Better, wilt thou deceive with thy lips?
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 24:28. Be not a witness — Do not be forward to offer thyself to bear testimony against a neighbour, in a matter which may prejudice him, where the essential claims of justice do not require such interference; and especially do not do this in a spirit of revenge, because he has injured thee before.
