Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Exodus 23:1

“Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.”

Exodus 23:1 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Exodus 23:1, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Exodus 23. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Psalms 101:5Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
  • Proverbs 19:5A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
  • Deuteronomy 19:16If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
  • Exodus 20:16Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
  • Matthew 26:59Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
  • Leviticus 19:16Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
  • Psalms 35:11False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
  • Romans 3:8And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
  • Deuteronomy 5:20Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
  • Proverbs 19:9A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
  • Acts 6:11Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
  • Revelation 12:10And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which a…
  • Proverbs 10:18He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
  • Proverbs 21:28A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.

More to meet God in Exodus

Exodus 14:14Exodus 15:2Exodus 20:5Exodus 3:8Exodus 18:21Exodus 19:5Exodus 23:21Exodus 20:17Exodus 3:6Exodus 28:2Exodus 23:2Exodus 34:7Exodus 27:21Exodus 20:4

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.