💡WEB · Proverbs 24:28

What does Proverbs 24:28 mean?

"Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips."

— Proverbs 24:28 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

25

but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them.

26

An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

27

Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

28

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

29

Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.”

30

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

31

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

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