28Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.


In Context

25 but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them.

26 An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

27 Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

28 Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.

29 Don't say, |I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.|

30 I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

Proverbs 24:28 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:28Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive [not] with thy lips.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

24:28Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, or use your lips to deceive.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

24:28Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

24:28Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; And deceive not with thy lips.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:28Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and wouldest thou deceive with thy lips?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

24:28Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:28Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

24:28Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:28Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause; and deceive not with your lips.