Proverbs 24:28
Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
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Cross references
- Ephesians 4:25 Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.
- 1 Kings 21:9–11 She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. Set two men, wicked fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.” The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.
- Proverbs 25:18 A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.