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Deuteronomy 19:16-21
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If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong,
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then both the men involved in the controversy shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;
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and the judges shall make diligent inquisition. And behold, if the witness be a false witness and hath testified falsely against his brother,
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then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother; so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
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And those who remain shall hear and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
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And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
1 Kings 21:8-13
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So she wrote letters in Ahab's name and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
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And she wrote in the letters, saying, "Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
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And set two men, sons of Belial, before him to bear witness against him, saying, `Thou didst blaspheme God and the king.' And then carry him out and stone him, that he may die."
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And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
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They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
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And 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 blasphemed God and the king." Then they carried him forth out of the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died.
Psalm 27:12
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies; for false witnesses have risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Psalm 35:11
False witnesses rose up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Psalm 35:12
They rewarded me evil for good, to the grieving of my soul.
Psalm 94:20
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with Thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
Psalm 94:21
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Proverbs 25:18
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbor is a maul and a sword and a sharp arrow.
Mark 14:55
And the chief priests and all of the council sought for witness against Jesus to put Him to death, and found none.
Mark 14:56
For many bore false witness against Him, but their witness agreed not together.
Acts 6:11-13
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Then they suborned men who said, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God."
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And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and came upon him and caught him, and brought him to the council.
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And they set up false witnesses who said, "This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law;
Acts 24:1-13
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And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders and with him a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.
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And when Paul was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, "Seeing that by thee we enjoy much quietness, most noble Felix, and that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence,
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we accept it always and in all places with all thankfulness.
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Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear from us in thy clemency a few words.
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For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
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who also hath gone about profaning the temple. Him we took and would have judged according to our law.
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But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
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commanding his accusers to come unto thee, so that by examining him thyself, thou mayest have knowledge of all of these things whereof we accuse him."
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And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.
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Then Paul, after the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered: "Inasmuch as I know that thou hast been for many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself.
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For thou mayest understand that there have been yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship.
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And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither stirring up the people, neither in the synagogues nor in the city.
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Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.