Proverbs 19:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will perish.”
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“A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will perish.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.”
King James Version · Public Domain“A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that uttereth lies shall perish.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 19:9 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Proverbs 19:5A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.
- Isaiah 9:15The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.
- Jeremiah 23:25“I have heard the sayings of the prophets who prophesy lies in My name: ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’
- Jeremiah 28:15Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah! The LORD did not send you, but you have persuaded this people to trust in a lie.
- Jeremiah 29:31“Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,
- Ezekiel 13:22Because you have disheartened the righteous with your lies, even though I have caused them no grief, and because you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways to save their lives,
- 2 Thessalonians 2:8And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.
- 1 Timothy 4:1Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,
- 2 Peter 2:1Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.
- Revelation 19:20But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
- Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
- Revelation 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
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