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New Century Version

Proverbs 19:5

A witness who lies will not go free; liars will never escape.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Falsehood;   Thompson Chain Reference - Error;   Escape, No;   Liars;   No;   Sin;   Sin's;   Sin-Saviour;   Transgression;   Truth-Falsehood;   The Topic Concordance - Lying/lies;   Perishing;   Punishment;   Witness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Lying;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Lie;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Lie, Lying;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Witness;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.
Geneva Bible (1587)
A false witnes shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes, shall not escape.
Christian Standard Bible®
A false witness will not go unpunished,and one who utters lies will not escape.
Hebrew Names Version
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
Easy-to-Read Version
A witness who lies will be punished; that liar will not escape.
Amplified Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who breathes out lies will not escape.
American Standard Version
A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that uttereth lies shall not escape.
Contemporary English Version
Dishonest witnesses and liars won't escape punishment.
Complete Jewish Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished; whoever breathes out lies will not escape.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that breatheth forth lies shall not escape.
King James Version (1611)
A false witnesse shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes, shal not escape.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that accuses unjustly shall not escape.
English Revised Version
A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that uttereth lies shall not escape.
Berean Standard Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.
Lexham English Bible
A witness of falsehood will not go unpunished, and he who breathes lies will not escape.
Literal Translation
A false witness shall not be acquitted; yea, a breather of lies shall not escape.
New English Translation
A false witness will not go unpunished, and the one who spouts out lies will not escape punishment.
New King James Version
A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who speaks lies will not escape.
New Living Translation
A false witness will not go unpunished, nor will a liar escape.
New Life Bible
A man who tells lies about someone will be punished. He who tells lies will not get away.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A false witness, shall not be held innocent, and, he that uttereth lies, shall not escape.
Douay-Rheims Bible
A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies, shall not escape.
George Lamsa Translation
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he who speaks lies shall not escape.
Good News Translation
If you tell lies in court, you will be punished—there will be no escape.
New American Standard Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished, And one who declares lies will not escape.
King James Version
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
A false witnesse shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes shall not escape.
New Revised Standard
A false witness will not go unpunished, and a liar will not escape.
Darby Translation
A false witness shall not be held innocent, and he that uttereth lies shall not escape.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A fals witnesse schal not be vnpunyschid; and he that spekith leesingis, schal not ascape.
Young's Literal Translation
A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.
World English Bible
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
Revised Standard Version
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who utters lies will not escape.
Update Bible Version
A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that utters lies shall not escape.
Webster's Bible Translation
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and [he that] speaketh lies shall not escape.
Bible in Basic English
A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A false wytnesse shal not remayne vnpunyshed, and he that speaketh lyes shal not escape.
THE MESSAGE
Perjury won't go unpunished. Would you let a liar go free?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who tells lies will not escape.
Legacy Standard Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished,And he who breathes out lies will not escape.

Contextual Overview

5 A witness who lies will not go free; liars will never escape.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

false: Proverbs 19:9, Proverbs 6:19, Proverbs 21:28, Exodus 23:1, Deuteronomy 19:16-21, Psalms 120:3, Psalms 120:4, Daniel 6:24

unpunished: Heb. held innocent, Deuteronomy 5:11, 1 Kings 2:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 39:17 - General Deuteronomy 5:20 - General Deuteronomy 19:19 - Then shall Judges 11:13 - Because Israel 1 Samuel 22:9 - Doeg 1 Kings 21:13 - the men of Belial Psalms 52:5 - God Proverbs 12:17 - but Proverbs 14:5 - General Proverbs 24:28 - not Ecclesiastes 10:12 - but Ezekiel 17:15 - shall he escape Daniel 11:32 - shall be Hosea 10:13 - eaten Revelation 21:8 - and all

Cross-References

Genesis 19:23
The sun had already come up when Lot entered Zoar.
Genesis 19:24
The Lord sent a rain of burning sulfur down from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah
Genesis 19:26
At that point Lot's wife looked back. When she did, she became a pillar of salt.
Genesis 19:27
Early the next morning, Abraham got up and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord .
Leviticus 18:22
"‘You must not have sexual relations with a man as you would a woman. That is a hateful sin.
Leviticus 20:13
"‘If a man has sexual relations with another man as a man does with a woman, these two men have done a hateful sin. They must be put to death. They have brought it on themselves.
Judges 19:22
While they were enjoying themselves, some wicked men of the city surrounded the house and beat on the door. They shouted to the old man who owned the house, "Bring out the man who came to your house. We want to have sexual relations with him."
Isaiah 1:9
The Lord All-Powerful allowed a few of our people to live. Otherwise we would have been completely destroyed like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 3:9
The look on their faces shows they are guilty; like the people of Sodom, they are proud of their sin. They don't care who sees it. How terrible it will be for them, because they have brought much trouble on themselves.
Jeremiah 3:3
So the rain has not come, and there have not been any spring rains. But your face still looks like the face of a prostitute. You refuse even to be ashamed of what you did.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A false witness shall not be unpunished,.... He that bears false witness against his neighbour in an open court of judicature; though be may not be detected by men, and so escape the punishment due to such offenders by the laws of God and men; yet God, who knows all hearts and actions, will not suffer him to go with impunity; if not punished in this world, he shall be in the world to come; for bearing false witness, or perjury, is a grievous offence to God;

and [he that] speaketh lies shall not escape; even he that useth himself to lying in private conversation shall not escape the reproach of men; for nothing is more scandalous than lying; nor the wrath of God, such shall have their portion in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, Revelation 21:8.


 
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