"Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. {raise: or, receiv…" — Exodus 23:1

Exodus 23:1 · KJV

“Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. {raise: or, receive}”

— Exodus 23:1

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to {do} evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest {judgment}: {speak: Heb. answer}

Exodus 23 — Context

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. {raise: or, receive}

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to {do} evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest {judgment}: {speak: Heb. answer}

Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

Cross References

Psalms 101:5

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

Proverbs 19:5

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and {he that} speaketh lies shall not escape. {unpunished: Heb. held innocent}

Deuteronomy 19:16-21

If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him {that which is} wrong; {that...: or, falling away}

Exodus 20:16

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Matthew 26:59-61

But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, {yet} found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,

Romans 3:8

And not {rather}, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

Psalms 35:11

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge {things} that I knew not. {False...: Heb. Witnesses of wrong} {they...: Heb. they asked me}

Leviticus 19:16

Thou shalt not go up and down {as} a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I {am} the LORD.