Exodus 20:16
16 a“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.Deuteronomy 19:18-19
18The judges shall binquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely, 19 cthen you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil ▼▼Or evil person
from your midst. 2 Samuel 19:24-30
24And eMephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. He had neither taken care of his feet nor trimmed his beard nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came back in safety. 25And when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, f“Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?” 26He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said to him, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, ▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate Saddle a donkey for me
that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ For hyour servant is lame. 27 iHe has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is jlike the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you. 28For all my father’s house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king, but kyou set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to cry to the king?” 29And the king said to him, “Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land.” 30And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Oh, let him take it all, since my lord the king has come safely home.” Psalms 15:3
3who ldoes not slander with his tongueand does no evil to his neighbor,
nor mtakes up a reproach against his friend;
Psalms 101:5
5 Whoever slanders his neighbor nsecretlyI will odestroy.
Whoever has a phaughty look and an qarrogant heart
I will not endure.
Proverbs 1:19
19 rSuch are the ways of everyone who is sgreedy for unjust gain;tit takes away the life of its possessors.
Proverbs 21:28
28 uA false witness will perish,but the word of a man who hears will endure.
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