sought
1 Kings 21:10
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."
1 Kings 21:13
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.
Matthew 26:59
Now the chief priests and elders and all the council sought false witness against Jesus to put Him to death,
Matthew 26:60
but found none. Yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
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.
and found
Daniel 6:4
Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no occasion nor fault, inasmuch as he was faithful; neither was there any error or fault found in him.
1 Peter 3:16-18
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Have a good conscience, that, whereas they speak evil of you as of evildoers, they who falsely accuse may be ashamed by your good manner of life in Christ.
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For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for welldoing than for evildoing.
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For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit,