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Proverbs 24:28
Be not a witnes against thy neighbour without cause: for wilt thou deceiue with thy lippes?
Proverbs 24:28 · Geneva Bible
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Proverbs 24:28 in other translations
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
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In context
25 But to them that rebuke him, shall be pleasure, and vpon them shall come the blessing of goodnesse.
26 They shall kisse the lippes of him that answereth vpright wordes.
27 Prepare thy worke without, and make readie thy thinges in the fielde, and after, builde thine house.
28 Be not a witnes against thy neighbour without cause: for wilt thou deceiue with thy lippes?
29 Say not, I wil doe to him, as he hath done to mee, I will recompence euery man according to his worke.
30 I passed by the fielde of the slouthfull, and by the vineyarde of the man destitute of vnderstanding.
31 And lo, it was al growen ouer with thornes, and nettles had couered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken downe.
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