Proverbs 24:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Proverbs 24:28 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Deceive not with thy lips - Better, wilt thou deceive with thy lips?

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• Proverbs 24:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Second Division, Proverbs 24:23-34 . This section constitutes the second division of the Sayings of the Wise, as Proverbs 24:23 a indicates. It contains a short collection of sayings varying i...

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• Proverbs 24:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  deceive. Hebrew. pathah. See note on Proverbs 11:18 .

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• Proverbs 24:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips. Be not a witness - Do not be forward to offer thyself to bear testimony against a neighbor, in a matter which ma...

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• Proverbs 24:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips. Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause - falsely, or even frivolously, without sure ground fo...

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• Proverbs 24:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'

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• Proverbs 24:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Without cause — i.e. , do not mention thy neighbour’s faults unless for some good reason, not for malice or love of gossip.

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• Proverbs 24:28 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 25 FORGIVING "Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to...

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• Proverbs 24:28 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest endeavor t...

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• Proverbs 24:28 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house. Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I w...

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• Proverbs 24:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause ,.... Unless forced unto it, except there is some urgent reason for it; not upon any trivial account, or in any frivolous matter; never appear fo...

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• Proverbs 24:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive [not] with thy lips. Ver. 28. Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause. ] That is, Without calling, being not thereunt...

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• Proverbs 24:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Be not witness against thy neighbour Either in judgment or in private conversation; without cause Rashly or falsely, without just and sufficient cause; and deceive not with thy lips Neither thy...

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• Proverbs 24:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.   29 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his wo...

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• Proverbs 24:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Be not a witness against thy neighbour, either in judgment or in private conversation, without cause; rashly or falsely, without just and sufficient cause. Deceive not neither thy neighbour, to w...

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• Proverbs 24:28 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 24:28-29 AN UNCALLED-FOR TESTIMONY I. There are times and circumstances in which it is our duty to witness against our neighbour . When the interests of right and t...

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• Proverbs 24:28 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 24:1 . Be not envious against evil men. Similar thoughts occur in Psalms 37:1 ; Psalms 73 ; Proverbs 17:1 . Why should we envy the wicked? We are all going to lie in the common dust; t...

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• Proverbs 24:28 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause. The nature and extent of false witness There is nothing more dear and valuable to men than their reputation or good name. It is a mark of a...

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• Proverbs 24:28 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Proverbs 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. Be not thou envious against evil men (see on Proverbs 23:17 , where a similar warning is given, and comp...

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• Proverbs 24:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 28. Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, without reason and need, out of pure animosity; and deceive not with thy lips, rather in the form of a question, "And shouldest thou pr...

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• Proverbs 24:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 21:9-13 ; 1 Samuel 22:10 ; 1 Samuel 22:9 ; Colossians 3:9 ; Ephesians 4:25 ; Exodus 20:16 ; Exodus 23:1 ; Job 2:3 ; John 15:25 ; Matthew 26:59 ; Matthew 26:60 ; Matthew 27:23 ; P...

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