16These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,


In Context

13 It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don't be afraid. Let your hands be strong.|

14 For thus says Yahweh of Armies: |As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath,| says Yahweh of Armies, |and I didn't repent;

15 so again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don't be afraid.

16 These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

17 and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,| says Yahweh.

18 The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.

Zechariah 8:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:16These [are] the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:16These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other, and render true and sound judgment in your courts;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:16These then are the things, which you shall do: Speak ye truth every one to his neighbour: judge ye truth and judgment of peace in your gates.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:16These are the things that ye shall do: speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:16These are the things that ye shall do: Speak truth every one with his neighbour; execute truth and the judgment of peace in your gates;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:16These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth with his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:16These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:16These are the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:16These are the things that you shall do; Speak you every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: