Remember if you destroy someone else’s reputation with your witness, be sure that you would be willing to have your own reputation destroyed by the same kind of witness about you – if you think that it is something that should be kept quiet if it were told about you, then keep quiet – don’t get the reputation, “he can dish it out but he can’t take it.”īe a true witness and have the character and good report of a faithful witness not one who exaggerates the truth and lies. you understand that you will receive email communications from Bible Gateway, a division of The Zondervan Corporation, 3900 Sparks Drive SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 USA. Mark 14:56 NKJV - For many bore false witness against Him, but their testimonies did not agree. Therefore, do not witness against another person for any reason until you know all of the facts and then only witness if there is a compelling reason and only tell the appropriate person – my mother says, “I hate to hear bad news about people” – Prov 10:12 love covereth all sins.Ī compelling reason to witness is to protect others – for example you should warn others of a wolf in sheep’s clothing – the Bible says, “mark them” – you should also warn others of a thief, a sexual predator, a lie that a liar has told and so forth – another reason to witness is to tell when asked by someone who needs to know.Ī major problem is that people rarely get it right – third hand stuff is generally way off base yet it is used by the false witness however he intends to use it – so if you are relying on something someone else said BE SURE to study the thing out carefully – ask the person directly – hear their side of the story and check them for lies or truth. For many bore false witness against Him, but their testimonies did not agree. So being a false witness is serious business – that’s why Prov 19:5, 9 21:28. Read full chapter Exodus 20:16 in all English translations Exodus 19 Exodus 21 New King James Version (NKJV) Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Now in the Old Testament a false witness got the same treatment as the person he accused was supposed to get if he had been found guilty based on the testimony of the false witness – Deut 19:15-21 – just look what happened to the false witnesses that testified against Naboth, Jesus and Stephen – if we still had this law, the court dockets would clear up and so would bad-mouthed Christians. 16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. In this passage false witnesses are called a maul – when someone really gets beat up, they say he got mauled – he is also a sword and an arrow – these things kill you – so notice:įalse witnesses were responsible for the death of Naboth – 1 Ki 21:8-13įalse witnesses were responsible for the death of Jesus – Matt 26:60įalse witnesses were responsible for the death of Stephen – Acts 6:13-7:1 False testimony could be defined as any false information given as a testimony for or against in a judicial proceeding. 25:18 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIOĪ false witness is one who lies – generally, he lies about someone else to cause them harm – it is against the law to be a false witness – Ex 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour ( in Hebrew) (Exodus 20:16) is one of the Ten Commandments, widely understood. Then he shall bring to the priest his guilt offering to the Lord, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your valuation, for a guilt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he will be forgiven for any one of the things which he may have done to incur guilt.A False Witness Prov. He shall give it to the one to whom it belongs on the day he presents his guilt offering. That is, they were persons who, in what they said of me, were guilty of injustice and wrong. Then it shall be, when he sins and becomes guilty, that he shall restore what he took by robbery or what he got by extortion, or the deposit which was entrusted to him or the lost thing which he found, or anything about which he swore falsely he shall make restitution for it in full and add to it one-fifth more. False witnesses did rise up - Margin, 'witnesses of wrong.' The Hebrew is, 'witnesses of 'violence,'' chamas. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “When a person sins and acts unfaithfully against the Lord, and deceives his companion in regard to a deposit or a security entrusted to him, or through robbery, or if he has extorted from his companion, or has found what was lost and lied about it and sworn falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one of the things a man may do read more.
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