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Amsal 12:17

Siapa mengatakan kebenaran, menyatakan apa yang adil, tetapi saksi dusta menyatakan tipu daya.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Deceit;   Falsehood;   False Teachers;   Speaking;   Truth;   Thompson Chain Reference - False;   Witnesses, False;   The Topic Concordance - Deception;   Righteousness;   Speech/communication;   Truth;   Witness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Deceit;   Truth;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Truth;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Honesty;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Truth;   Witness;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Truth;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Judge;   Slander;   Witness;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 3;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Siapa mengatakan kebenaran, menyatakan apa yang adil, tetapi saksi dusta menyatakan tipu daya.

Contextual Overview

17 A iust man wyll tell the trueth and shewe the thyng that is ryght: but a false witnesse deceaueth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that: Proverbs 14:5, Proverbs 14:25, 1 Samuel 22:14, 1 Samuel 22:15

but: Proverbs 6:19, Proverbs 19:5, Proverbs 19:28, Proverbs 21:28, Proverbs 24:28, Matthew 15:19, Matthew 26:59, Acts 6:13, 1 Peter 3:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:16 - Give your cattle Exodus 23:1 - an unrighteous witness Proverbs 26:24 - deceit Zechariah 8:16 - Speak Matthew 12:35 - good man Ephesians 4:25 - speak

Cross-References

Genesis 12:14
And so when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians behelde the woman, for she was very fayre.
Genesis 12:15
The princes also of Pharao sawe her, and comended her before Pharao, and the woman was taken into Pharaos house.
Genesis 20:18
For the Lorde had closed vp all the wombes of the house of Abimelech, because of Abrahams wyfe.
1 Chronicles 16:21
He suffred no man to do them wrong: yea he reproued euen kinges for their sakes.
1 Chronicles 21:22
And Dauid sayde to Ornan: Geue me the place of the threshing floore, that I may buylde an aulter therin vnto the lord: Thou shalt geue it me for as much money as it is worth, that the plague may ceasse from the people.
Job 34:19
God hath no respect vnto the persons of the lordly, and regardeth not the riche more then the poore: for they be al the worke of his handes.
Hebrews 13:4
Wedlocke is honorable among all men, and the bed vndefiled: But whoremongers and adulterers God wyll iudge.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[He that] speaketh truth showeth forth righteousness,.... He that "blows" or "breathes out truth" d, as the word signifies; that utters it freely and fully without any hesitation; that speaks nothing but truth, and speaks out the whole truth without any reserve; such a man upon every occasion will declare that which is just and right, and show himself to be an honest and upright man; he that uses himself to speak truth in common conversation, will, in a court of judicature, whether upon his oath or not, testify that which is just and the real matter of fact; there is a connection between truth and righteousness, for though they are distinct things they go together, what is true is just, and what is just is true; so he that speaks the truth of the Gospel, or is a faithful preacher of it, will show forth righteousness, what is the righteousness of the law, and what is the righteousness of faith; how insufficient a man's own righteousness is to justify him in the sight of God; the necessity of the righteousness of Christ, how free and full, excellent and glorious, suitable and useful it is, Romans 1:17;

but a false witness deceit; that is, one that is used to lying, when he is called to give testimony upon any affair in judgment, he will declare that which is false and deceitful, having no regard to truth and justice. So a false teacher, instead of showing men the insufficiency of their own righteousness, and directing them to the righteousness of Christ for justification, will utter deceitful doctrine, and build up their hopes upon the sandy and deceitful foundation of their own works; as Popish teachers, and such as verge towards them.

d יפיח "effiat", Junius Tremellius "spirat", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The thought which lies below the surface is that of the inseparable union between truth and justice. The end does not justify the means, and only he who breathes and utters truth makes the righteous cause clear.


 
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