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Letter "F" » false witness
«Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen»
Author: Sir Philip Sidney
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Statesman)
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Keywords:
accused,
cunning,
falsehoods,
false witness,
grant,
malice,
mingles,
moment of truth,
plead,
pleading,
pleads,
promotes,
surmise,
surmises,
tale,
The Accused
«Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.»
«Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; / But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses, / And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.»
«The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind? / A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.»
«Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.»
«If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; / Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; / And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; / 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.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
controversy,
diligent,
falsely,
false witness,
his brother,
inquisition,
inquisitions,
rise up,
testified,
testifies,
testify,
the Inquisition,
witness stand
«These six things the Lord hates, yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness who speaks lies, and one w»
«Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor»
«Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should n»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Author,
President)
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Keywords:
false witness,
forbid,
Interesting Times,
interests,
murder,
observation,
plunder,
plundered,
plundering,
plunders,
Precepts,
reflection,
require,
steal,
witness