Witness

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Come, and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.

But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”

We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.

“‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized. — read the full passage →

For there are three who testify:

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden. — read the full passage →

You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, Buy the field for money, and call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

“‘If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

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

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — read the full passage →

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

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”

Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.

It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

He didn’t allow him, but said to him, “Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.”

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

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

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses this day.”

The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from your midst.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. — read the full passage →

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, says Yahweh.

and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”

A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. The base fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.” — read the full passage →

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