Proverbs 12:17
12:17 The faithful witness tells what is right,
but a false witness speaks deceit.
Proverbs 19:5
19:5 A false witness will not go unpunished,
and the one who spouts out lies will not escape punishment.
Proverbs 19:9
19:9 A false witness will not go unpunished,
and the one who spouts out lies will perish.
Proverbs 25:18
25:18 Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow,
so is the one who testifies against his neighbor as a false witness.
Exodus 20:16
20:16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
Exodus 23:1
Justice
23:1 “You must not give a false report. Do not make common cause with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
Deuteronomy 19:16-20
19:16 If a false
witness testifies against another person and accuses him of a crime,
19:17 then both parties to the controversy must stand before the
Lord, that is, before the priests and judges
who will be in office in those days.
19:18 The judges will thoroughly investigate the matter, and if the witness should prove to be false and to have given false testimony against the accused,
19:19 you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge
evil from among you.
19:20 The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.
Deuteronomy 19:1
Laws Concerning Manslaughter
19:1 When the Lord your God destroys the nations whose land he is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,
Deuteronomy 21:10-15
Laws Concerning Wives
21:10 When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the Lord your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,
21:11 if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,
21:12 you may bring her back to your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,
21:13 discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations with her and become her husband and she your wife.
21:14 If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.
Laws Concerning Children
21:15 Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.
Psalms 27:12
27:12 Do not turn me over to my enemies,
for false witnesses who want to destroy me testify against me.
Psalms 35:11
35:11 Violent men perjure themselves,
and falsely accuse me.
Matthew 15:19
15:19 For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
Matthew 26:59
26:59 The
chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were trying to find false testimony against Jesus so that they could put him to death.
Acts 6:13
6:13 They brought forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop saying things against this holy place
and the law.