Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, July 31st, 2025
the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
Attention!
Take your personal ministry to the Next Level by helping StudyLight build churches and supporting pastors in Uganda.
Click here to join the effort!

Read the Bible

New Life Version

Proverbs 6:19

a person who tells lies about someone else, and one who starts fights among brothers.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abomination;   Falsehood;   False Teachers;   Malice;   Sin;   Slander;   Speaking;   Strife;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - False;   Witnesses, False;   The Topic Concordance - Abomination;   Discord;   Hate;   Lying/lies;   Pride/arrogance;   Violence;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Lying;   Sin;   Slander;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hatred;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Lie, Lying;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Death;   Hate, Hatred;   Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crime;   Games;   Judge;   Proverbs, Book of;   Witness;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ethics;   Godliness;   Numbers and Numerals;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
a lying witness who gives false testimony,and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.
Hebrew Names Version
A false witness who utters lies, And he who sows discord among brothers.
King James Version
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
English Standard Version
a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
New Century Version
a witness who lies, and someone who starts arguments among families.
New English Translation
a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who spreads discord among family members.
Amplified Bible
A false witness who breathes out lies [even half-truths], And one who spreads discord (rumors) among brothers.
New American Standard Bible
A false witness who declares lies, And one who spreads strife among brothers.
World English Bible
A false witness who utters lies, And he who sows discord among brothers.
Geneva Bible (1587)
A false witnesse that speaketh lyes, and him that rayseth vp contentions among brethren.
Legacy Standard Bible
A false witness who breathes out lies,And one who spreads strife among brothers.
Berean Standard Bible
a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.
Contemporary English Version
those who tell lies in court or stir up trouble in a family.
Complete Jewish Bible
a false witness who lies with every breath, and him who sows strife among brothers.
Darby Translation
a false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discords among brethren.
Easy-to-Read Version
witnesses in court who tell lies, and anyone who causes family members to fight.
George Lamsa Translation
A false witness who speaks lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
Good News Translation
Lexham English Bible
a false witness who breathes lies and sends out discord between brothers.
Literal Translation
a false witness who breathes lies, and he who causes strife among brothers.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
a false wytnesse yt bringeth vp lyes, & soch one as soweth discorde amonge brethren.
American Standard Version
A false witness that uttereth lies, And he that soweth discord among brethren.
Bible in Basic English
A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
A false witness that breatheth out lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
King James Version (1611)
A false witnesse that speaketh lies; and him that soweth discord among brethren.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
A false witnesse that bringeth vp lyes, and hym that soweth discorde among brethren.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and brings on quarrels between brethren.
English Revised Version
A false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
a man bringynge forth lesingis, a fals witnesse; and him that sowith discordis among britheren.
Update Bible Version
A false witness that utters lies, And he that sows discord among brothers.
Webster's Bible Translation
A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and him that soweth discord among brethren.
New King James Version
A false witness who speaks lies, And one who sows discord among brethren.
New Living Translation
a false witness who pours out lies, a person who sows discord in a family.
New Revised Standard
a lying witness who testifies falsely, and one who sows discord in a family.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
One that uttereth lies - a false witness, and one sending forth strifes between brethren.
Douay-Rheims Bible
A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and him that soweth discord among brethren.
Revised Standard Version
a false witness who breathes out lies, and a man who sows discord among brothers.
Young's Literal Translation
A false witness [who] doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A false witness who utters lies, And one who spreads strife among brothers.

Contextual Overview

12 A person of no worth, a sinful man, is he who goes about telling lies. 13 He winks with his eyes, makes signs with his feet, and makes certain moves with his fingers. 14 He always plans to do sinful things because of his sinful heart. He causes arguing among people. 15 So trouble will come upon him all at once. Right then he will be broken, and there will be no healing. 16 There are six things which the Lord hates, yes, seven that are hated by Him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that kill those who are without guilt, 18 a heart that makes sinful plans, feet that run fast to sin, 19 a person who tells lies about someone else, and one who starts fights among brothers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

A false: Proverbs 12:17, Proverbs 19:5, Proverbs 19:9, Proverbs 25:18, Exodus 20:16, Exodus 23:1, Deuteronomy 19:16-20, 1 Kings 21:10-15, Psalms 27:12, Psalms 35:11, Matthew 15:19, Matthew 26:59, Acts 6:13

that soweth: Proverbs 6:14, Proverbs 16:28, Proverbs 22:10, Proverbs 26:20, 2 Timothy 2:23, James 3:14-16, James 3:18, 3 John 1:9, 3 John 1:10

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 5:20 - General 1 Kings 21:13 - the men of Belial Proverbs 14:5 - General Proverbs 18:19 - brother Proverbs 21:28 - false witness Jeremiah 9:4 - walk Galatians 6:7 - for Ephesians 4:31 - evil speaking Titus 3:2 - speak James 3:6 - a world

Cross-References

Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful. And they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
Genesis 6:3
Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not stay in man forever, for he is flesh. But yet he will live for 120 years."
Genesis 6:8
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
Genesis 6:9
This is the story of Noah and his family. Noah was right with God. He was without blame in his time. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:15
This is how you are to make it: The boat is to be as long as 150 long steps, as wide as twenty-five long steps, and eight times taller than a man.
Genesis 6:16
Make a window for the boat, that goes down a cubit from the roof. Put a door in the side of the boat. And make it with first, second, and third floors.
Genesis 8:17
Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and everything that moves on the earth. So they may give birth and become many upon the earth."
Psalms 36:6
You are as right and good as mountains are big. You are as fair when You judge as a sea is deep. O Lord, You keep safe both man and animal.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A false witness [that] speaketh lies,.... Or, "that speaketh lies, [even] a false witness" f; and so this is distinguished from a lying tongue, the second of these evils: this is the sin of bearing false witness against one's neighbour, a breach of the eighth command. It may be rendered, "he that bloweth lies" g; that raises lies, and spreads them abroad, and swears to them, to the damage of others. This makes the sixth; and the seventh follows,

and him that soweth discord among brethren; whether in a natural relation, or in a civil society, or in a religious community.

f So Vatablus, Mercerus, &c. g יפיח כזבים "qui efflat mendacia", Piscator, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A new section, but not a new subject. The closing words, “he that soweth discord” (Proverbs 6:19, compare Proverbs 6:14), lead us to identify the sketch as taken from the same character. With the recognized Hebrew form of climax (see Proverbs 30:15, Proverbs 30:18, Proverbs 30:24; Amos 1:1-15; Amos 2:0; Job 5:19), the teacher here enumerates six qualities as detestable, and the seventh as worse than all (seven represents completeness), but all the seven in this instance belong to one man, the man of Belial Proverbs 6:12.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile