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This moral prescription flows from the vocation of the holy people to bear witness to their God who is the truth and wills the truth. Offenses against the truth express by word or deed a refusal to commit oneself to moral up rightness: they are fundamental infidelities to God and, in this sense, they undermine the foundations of the covenant.
THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 252. It was said to the men of old, "You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn." 253. 2464 The eighth commandment forbids misrepresenting the truth in our relations with others.
May 1, 2015 · The eighth commandment forbids misrepresenting the truth in our relations with others. This moral prescription flows from the vocation of the holy people to bear witness to their God who is the truth and wills the truth.
Sep 4, 2017 · There is another gross violation of the Eighth Commandment: “bearing false witness” by accusing someone of an offense that he did not commit. Sad to say, we have also seen clear cases of this...
"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."[1] This may occur in two ways, either in a court of justice or in ordinary conversation. In the court of justice it may happen in three ways, according to the three persons who may violate this Commandment in court.[2]
"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor" (Biblical Hebrew: לֹא תַעֲנֶה בְרֵעֲךָ עֵד שָׁקֶר, romanized: Lōʾ t̲aʿăneh b̲ərēʿăk̲ā ʿēd̲ šāqer) (Exodus 20:16) is one of the Ten Commandments, [1] [2] widely understood as moral imperatives in Judaism and Christianity.
May 30, 2012 · I. False Witness – Scripture says, A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow. (Proverbs 25:18) Nothing can be so injurious to individuals as to harm their good name or reputation.
