¹⁶ "'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people; neither shall you stand against the life{literally, "blood"} of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

¹ "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

⁷ "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

⁹ Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.

¹⁹ He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; Therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

¹³ One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, But one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

³ He who doesn't slander with his tongue, Nor does evil to his friend, Nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

¹¹ Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."

¹² They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,

¹³ and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

⁶⁰ and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

⁶¹ and said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.'"

⁴ Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

²⁸ They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.

¹⁰ and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, You did curse God and the king. Then carry him out, and stone him to death.

¹¹ The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them.

¹² They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

¹³ The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him: and the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did curse God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.

¹ Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

³ and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

³ without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

¹¹ Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

⁴ But, that I don't delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words.

⁵ For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

⁶ He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.{TR adds "We wanted to judge him according to our law,"}

⁷ {TR adds "but the commanding officer, Lysias, came by and with great violence took him out of our hands,"}

⁸ {TR adds "commanding his accusers to come to you."}By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him."

⁹ The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so.

⁴ saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."

¹⁶ "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.