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Proverbs 24:28
Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Do not deceive with your lips.
Proverbs 24:28 · New Heart English 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 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 Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Do not deceive with your lips.
29 Do not 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;
31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
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