◄ Acts 6:13 ►
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Good News Translation
Then they brought in some men to tell lies about him. "This man," they said, "is always talking against our sacred Temple and the Law of Moses.

New Revised Standard Version
They set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops saying things against this holy place and the law;

Contemporary English Version
Some men agreed to tell lies about Stephen, and they said, "This man keeps on saying terrible things about this holy temple and the Law of Moses.

New American Bible
They presented false witnesses who testified, “This man never stops saying things against [this] holy place and the law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not to speak words against the holy place and the law.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not to speak words against the holy place and the law.

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Acts 6:11 Then they suborned men to say they had heard him speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.

Psalm 27:12 Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.

Psalm 35:11 Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.

Psalm 56:5 All the day long they detested my words: all their thoughts were against me unto evil.

Context
The Arrest of Stephen
…12And they stirred up the people and the ancients and the scribes. And running together, they took him and brought him to the council. 13And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not to speak words against the holy place and the law. 14For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place and shall change the traditions which Moses delivered unto us.…
Cross References
Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened.

Matthew 24:15
When therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that readeth let him understand.

Matthew 26:59
And the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death.

Acts 7:58
And casting him forth without the city. they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, whose name was Saul.

Acts 21:28
Men of Israel, help: This is the man that teacheth all men every where against the people and the law and this place; and moreover hath brought in Gentiles into the temple and hath violated this holy place.

Acts 25:8
Paul making answer for himself: Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I offended in any thing.

Acts 6:12
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