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Proverbs 14:4–5
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Proverbs 14:4
4Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
4Where no Oxen are, the crib is cleane: but much increase is by the strength of the Oxe.
Proverbs 14:5
5A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
5*A faithfull witnesse will not lye: but a false witnesse will vtter lyes.
- Exod.20.16. & 23.1. Chap.6.19. &12.17.
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Proverbs 14:4
A manger or feeding place for cattle.
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Pure or free from defilement; also wholly or entirely.
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But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
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A great quantity or degree; abundant in amount.
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Growth or addition in number, amount, strength, or fruitfulness; as a verb, to become or make greater.
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Power, force, firmness, ability, endurance, or that which gives support.
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Proverbs 14:5
Steadfast in truth, duty, promise, or allegiance; trustworthy and true.
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One who testifies from knowledge; testimony; as a verb, to see, attest, or testify.
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To recline, rest, remain, or be situated; also, to speak falsely or a falsehood.
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But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
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Not solid or sound; deceiving expectations. Not faithful or loyal; treacherous; perfidious; deceitful.
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To speak, declare, or make known; also outermost or complete, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893)
False statements or deceptions; as a verb, reclines, remains, is situated, or speaks falsely.
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From verse 4
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Open the full verse study9For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
10Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
11If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
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Open the full verse study23Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
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Open the full verse study6¶ And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
From verse 5
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Open the full verse study1THOU shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
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Open the full verse study5A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
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Open the full verse study19A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
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Open the full verse study17He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
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Open the full verse study25A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.
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Open the full verse study12And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper: for the Lord shall deliver it into the king’s hand.
13And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.
14And Micaiah said, As the Lord liveth, what the Lord saith unto me, that will I speak.
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Open the full verse study5A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
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Open the full verse study9A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
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Open the full verse study13And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
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Open the full verse study16Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
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