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English Revised Version

Proverbs 19:9

A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that uttereth lies shall perish.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Falsehood;   False Teachers;   Thompson Chain Reference - False;   Falsehood;   Liars;   Truth-Falsehood;   Witnesses, False;   The Topic Concordance - Lying/lies;   Perishing;   Punishment;   Witness;  

Dictionaries:

- 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;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A false witness will not go unpunished,and one who utters lies perishes.
Hebrew Names Version
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.
King James Version
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
English Standard Version
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.
New American Standard Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished, And one who declares lies will perish.
New Century Version
A witness who lies will not go free, liars will die.
Amplified Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who breathes lies will perish.
World English Bible
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.
Geneva Bible (1587)
A false witnes shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes, shall perish.
Legacy Standard Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished,And he who breathes out lies will perish.
Berean Standard Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will perish.
Contemporary English Version
Dishonest witnesses and liars will be destroyed.
Complete Jewish Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished; whoever breathes out lies will perish.
Darby Translation
A false witness shall not be held innocent, and he that uttereth lies shall perish.
Easy-to-Read Version
A witness who lies will be punished. That liar will be destroyed.
George Lamsa Translation
A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he who speaks lies shall perish.
Good News Translation
No one who tells lies in court can escape punishment; he is doomed.
Lexham English Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes lies will perish.
Literal Translation
A false witness shall not be acquitted; yea, he who speaks lies shall perish.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A false wytnesse shal not remayne vnpunyshed, & he yt speaketh lyes shal perishe.
American Standard Version
A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that uttereth lies shall perish.
Bible in Basic English
A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will be cut off.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that breatheth forth lies shall perish.
King James Version (1611)
A false witnesse shall not be vnpunished, and hee that speaketh lyes, shall perish.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
A false witnesse shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes shall perishe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A false witness shall not be unpunished; and whosoever shall kindle mischief shall perish by it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A fals witnesse schal not be vnpunyschid; and he that spekith leesyngis, schal perische.
Update Bible Version
A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that utters lies shall perish.
Webster's Bible Translation
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and [he that] speaketh lies shall perish.
New English Translation
A false witness will not go unpunished, and the one who spouts out lies will perish.
New King James Version
A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who speaks lies shall perish.
New Living Translation
A false witness will not go unpunished, and a liar will be destroyed.
New Life Bible
A man who tells lies about someone will be punished. He who tells lies will be lost.
New Revised Standard
A false witness will not go unpunished, and the liar will perish.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A false witness, shall not be held innocent, and, he that uttereth lies, shall perish.
Douay-Rheims Bible
A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies, shall perish.
Revised Standard Version
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who utters lies will perish.
Young's Literal Translation
A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.
THE MESSAGE
The person who tells lies gets caught; the person who spreads rumors is ruined.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who tells lies will perish.

Contextual Overview

9 A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that uttereth lies shall perish.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

false: Proverbs 19:5

and: Isaiah 9:15-17, Jeremiah 23:25-32, Jeremiah 28:15-17, Jeremiah 29:31, Jeremiah 29:32, Ezekiel 13:22, 2 Thessalonians 2:8-10, 1 Timothy 4:1, 1 Timothy 4:2, 2 Peter 2:1-3, Revelation 19:20, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 39:17 - General Exodus 23:1 - an unrighteous witness Deuteronomy 5:20 - General Deuteronomy 19:19 - Then shall Judges 11:13 - Because Israel 2 Samuel 19:6 - thou regardest 1 Kings 21:13 - the men of Belial Psalms 34:13 - speaking Psalms 52:5 - God Psalms 120:4 - arrows Proverbs 6:19 - A false Proverbs 12:19 - but Proverbs 14:5 - General Proverbs 21:28 - false witness Proverbs 24:28 - not

Cross-References

Genesis 11:6
And the LORD said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.
Genesis 13:12
Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
Genesis 19:7
And he said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.
Genesis 19:8
Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my roof.
Genesis 19:19
behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die:
Genesis 19:22
Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
Genesis 19:26
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Genesis 19:28
and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Exodus 2:14
And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known.
1 Samuel 2:16
And if the man said unto him, They will surely burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would say, Nay, but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A false witness shall not be unpunished,....

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and [he that] speaketh lies shall perish; or "be lost", shall be undone for ever; he shall not enter into the holy city, but have his part in the lake of fire: they that speak lies in hypocrisy, doctrinal ones, and are given up to believe and profess them, such shall be damned, 2 Thessalonians 2:11.


 
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