Proverbs 12:17–18

²⁵A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.

⁵A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

²⁸Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

¹⁹A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

¹⁹For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

²⁸An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.

⁵A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

²⁸A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.

¹⁶Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

¹⁴Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?

¹⁵Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.

¹³And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

⁵⁹Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;

²⁴Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

⁴A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

²⁰The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.

²¹The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

⁴My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

⁶And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

⁷For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

⁸But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

²Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

⁷The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

¹⁸A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

²²For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

³³And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.

¹⁷A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.

³Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

⁷Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

¹⁶And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

²In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.