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Geneva Bible

Proverbs 19:5

A false witnes shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes, shall not 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

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.
King James Version
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
English Standard Version
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.
New American Standard Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished, And one who declares lies will not escape.
New Century Version
A witness who lies will not go free; liars will never escape.
Amplified Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who breathes out lies will not escape.
World English Bible
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
Legacy Standard Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished,And he who breathes out lies will not escape.
Berean Standard Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will 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.
Darby Translation
A false witness shall not be held innocent, and he that uttereth lies shall not escape.
Easy-to-Read Version
A witness who lies will be punished; that liar will 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.
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A false wytnesse shal not remayne vnpunyshed, and he that speaketh lyes shal not escape.
American Standard Version
A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that uttereth 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.
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
A false witnesse shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes shall 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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A fals witnesse schal not be vnpunyschid; and he that spekith leesingis, schal not ascape.
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.
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.
New Revised Standard
A false witness will not go unpunished, and a liar will not escape.
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.
Revised Standard Version
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who utters lies will not escape.
Young's Literal Translation
A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.
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.

Contextual Overview

5 A false witnes shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes, shall not 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 sunne did rise vpon the earth, when Lot entred into Zoar.
Genesis 19:24
Then the Lord rained vpon Sodom and vpon Gomorah brimstone, & fire from the Lord out of heauen,
Genesis 19:26
Now his wife behind him looked backe, and she became a pillar of salt.
Genesis 19:27
And Abraham rising vp earely in ye morning went to the place, where he had stand before the Lord,
Leviticus 18:22
Thou shalt not lie with ye male as one lieth with a woman: for it is abomination.
Leviticus 20:13
The ma also that lyeth with the male, as one lyeth with a woman, they haue both committed abomination: they shall dye the death, their blood shalbe vpon them.
Judges 19:22
And as they were making their hearts merie, beholde, the men of the citie, wicked men beset the house round about, and smote at the doore, and spake to this olde man the master of the house saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house that we may knowe him.
Isaiah 1:9
Except the Lorde of hostes had reserued vnto vs, euen a small remnant: we should haue bene as Sodom, and should haue bene like vnto Gomorah.
Isaiah 3:9
The triall of their countenance testifieth against them, yea, they declare their sinnes as Sodom, they hide them not. Wo be vnto their soules: for they haue rewarded euil vnto themselues.
Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showres haue beene restrained, and the latter raine came not, and thou haddest a whores forehead: thou wouldest not bee ashamed.

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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