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Proverbs 14:25
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A true witness delivers souls; But he that utters lies [causes] deceit.
A truthful witness saves lives, but a false witness is a traitor.
A truthful witness rescues lives, but the one who breathes lies brings deception.
A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful [witness] speaketh lies.
A truthful witness saves souls, But a false witness is deceitful.
A truthful witness saves lives, But he who speaks lies is treacherous.
A truthful witness saves lives, but one who breathes out lies is deceitful.
A feithful witnesse delyuereth soulis; and a fals man bringith forth leesyngis.
A true witness delivereth souls: but he that uttereth lies causeth deceit.
A truthful witness saves lives, but one who utters lies is deceitful.
An honest witness can save your life, but liars can't be trusted.
A true witness delivereth souls; But he that uttereth lies causeth deceit.
A true witness is the saviour of lives; but he who says false things is a cause of deceit.
A truthful witness saves lives, but a liar misdirects [judgment].
A true witness delivereth souls; but deceit uttereth lies.
A witness who tells the truth saves lives, but one who tells lies hurts others.
A true witness delivereth souls; but he that breatheth forth lies is all deceit.
A true witnesse deliuereth soules: but a deceitfull witnesse speaketh lyes.
A faithful man who tells what he knows saves lives, but he who tells lies hurts others.
A truthful witness saves lives, but one who utters lies is a betrayer.
A faithfull witnes deliuereth soules: but a deceiuer speaketh lyes.
A true witness delivers lives; but a deceitful witness speaks falsehood.
A witness saves lives when he tells the truth; when he tells lies, he betrays people.
A deliverer of souls, is a faithful witness, but, he that uttereth falsehoods, is a fraud.
A faithful witness delivereth souls: and the double dealer uttereth lies.
A truthful witness saves lives, but one who utters lies is a betrayer.
A faythfull witnesse deliuereth soules: but a deceiptfull witnesse bryngeth foorth lyes.
A faithful witness shall deliver a soul from evil: but a deceitful man kindles falsehoods.
A truthful witness rescues lives,but one who utters lies is deceitful.
A truthful witness saves souls, But a false witness is deceitful.
A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.
He who saves lives is a witness of truth, but he who utters lies is a betrayer.
A true witness delivers souls, but a deceitful witness speaks lies.
A true witness is delivering souls, And a deceitful one breatheth out lies.
A faithfull wytnesse delyuereth soules, but a lyar dysceaueth them.
Souls are saved by truthful witness and betrayed by the spread of lies.
A truthful witness saves lives, But one who declares lies is deceitful.
A true witness delivers souls, But a deceitful witness speaks lies.
A truthful witness saves lives, But he who utters lies is treacherous.
A truthful witness delivers souls,But he who breathes out lies is deceitful.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 14:5, Acts 20:21, Acts 20:26, Acts 20:27, Acts 26:16-20, 1 Timothy 4:1-3, 2 Peter 3:3
Reciprocal: Proverbs 12:17 - that
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A true witness delivereth souls,.... Or, "a witness of truth" x: one that witnesses truth upon oath in a court of judicature, he "delivers souls"; men, not one man only, but many; a whole family, or more, in danger of being ruined; he delivers them, as the Septuagint and Arabic versions add, "from evils"; from evil charges and accusations brought against them; from the oppression of their enemies, from the loss of their good name, and from ruin and destruction, that otherwise would have come upon them; he delivers their "lives" y, as it may be rendered, in danger of being lost by false accusations: so a witness of the truth of Christ, or a faithful minister of the Gospel, not only saves himself, but them that hear him; and is an instrument of delivering the souls of men from error and damnation;
but a deceitful [witness] speaketh lies; boldly, openly, by wholesale; he blows them out z, to the ruin of the good names and characters, and to the destruction of the lives, of the innocent; and so a false teacher, one that lies in wait to deceive, speaks lies in hypocrisy, doctrinal lies, to the ruin of the souls of men. The Targum is,
"he that speaketh lies is deceitful;''
he is "deceit" a itself, as in the Hebrew text. Such is the man of sin, and such are his emissaries.
x עד אמת "testis veritatis", Montanus, Cocceius, Schultens. y נפשות "vitas; animam pro vita usurpari notum", Gejerus. z יפיח "efflat", Tigurine version, Piscator, Gejerus; "spirat", Schultens; "efflabit", Monatnus. a מרמה "dolus", Montanus, Vatablus; "fraus", Cocceius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
In the second clause, “destroyeth life” might have been expected as the antithesis to “delivereth souls.” But what worse could be said? “A deceitful witness speaketh lies.” All destruction is implied in falsehood.
