Deuteronomy 5:20

Deuteronomy chapter 5 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Context

v.19Neither shalt thou steal.

v.20This passage

v.21Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor’s wife; neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor’s house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is thy neighbor’s.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Proverbs 19:5

    A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that uttereth lies shall not escape.

  • Proverbs 6:19

    A false witness that uttereth lies, And he that soweth discord among brethren.

  • Exodus 23:1

    Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

  • 1 Kings 21:13

    And the two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him: and the base fellows bare witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did curse God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.

  • Exodus 20:16

    Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

  • Deuteronomy 19:16

    If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing,