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the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Young's Literal Translation

Proverbs 19:9

A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.

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.
English Revised Version
A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that uttereth lies shall perish.
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.
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 is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.

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 Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people [is] one, and one pronunciation [is] to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.
Genesis 13:12
Abram hath dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot hath dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and tenteth unto Sodom;
Genesis 19:7
and saith, `Do not, I pray you, my brethren, do evil;
Genesis 19:8
lo, I pray you, I have two daughters, who have not known any one; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do to them as [is] good in your eyes; only to these men do not anything, for therefore have they come in within the shadow of my roof.'
Genesis 19:19
lo, I pray thee, thy servant hath found grace in thine eyes, and thou dost make great thy kindness which thou hast done with me by saving my life, and I am unable to escape to the mountain, lest the evil cleave [to] me, and I have died;
Genesis 19:22
haste, escape thither, for I am not able to do anything till thine entering thither;' therefore hath he calleth the name of the city Zoar.
Genesis 19:26
And his wife looketh expectingly from behind him, and she is -- a pillar of salt!
Genesis 19:28
and he looketh on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and seeth, and lo, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace.
Exodus 2:14
and he saith, `Who set thee for a head and a judge over us? to slay me art thou saying [it], as thou hast slain the Egyptian?' and Moses feareth, and saith, `Surely the thing hath been known.'
1 Samuel 2:16
and the man saith unto him, `Let them surely make a perfume (as to-day) with the fat, then take to thee as thy soul desireth;' and he hath said to him, `Surely now thou dost give; and if not -- I have taken by strength.'

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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