Proverbs 12:17–19

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.

⁹A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

⁴Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

⁵God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

⁵That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

⁴Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord.

⁵Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

⁶But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

³But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

⁴Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

⁵And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.

⁶And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.

⁷And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.

⁸And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.

⁹Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.

¹⁰Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.

³⁵Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.