Verse List for PROV 14:25

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) A truthful witness saves lives, ⇔ ^ but a deceitful one breathes out lies.

OET-LV is_delivering lives a _witness _of reliability and_he _breathes _out lies deceit.

ULT A witness of truth rescues lives, ⇔ but a fraud breathes out lies.

UST Truthful witnesses save people from dying, ⇔  but deceptive people tell lies that cause harm to people.

BSB & MSB A truthful witness saves lives, ⇔  but one who utters lies is deceitful.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB A truthful witness saves souls, ⇔  but a false witness is deceitful.

NET A truthful witness rescues lives, ⇔ but the one who breathes lies brings deception.

LSV A true witness is delivering souls,
And a deceitful one breathes out lies.

FBV A truthful witness saves lives, but a false witness is treacherous.

T4T ⇔  By saying in court what is true, you can save the life of the one who is being falsely accused; ⇔  if you tell lies, you are abandoning someone who needs your help to defend him.

LEB • He who saves lives[fn] is a witness of truth,
• but he who utters lies is a betrayer.

BBE A true witness is the saviour of lives; but he who says false things is a cause of deceit.

Moff An honest witness will save life; ⇔  but one who tells a lie destroys life.

JPS A true witness delivereth souls; but he that breatheth forth lies is all deceit.

ASV A true witness delivereth souls; ⇔ But he that uttereth lies causeth deceit.

DRA A faithful witness delivereth souls: and the double dealer uttereth lies.

YLT A true witness is delivering souls, And a deceitful one breatheth out lies.

Drby A true witness delivereth souls; but deceit uttereth lies.

RV A true witness delivereth souls: but he that uttereth lies causeth deceit.
(A true witness delivereth/delivers souls: but he that uttereth lies causeth deceit.)

SLT A witness of truth delivers souls: and deceit will breathe out lies.

Wbstr A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.

KJB-1769 A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.
(A true witness delivereth/delivers souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh/speaks lies.)

KJB-1611 [fn]A true witnesse deliuereth soules: but a deceitfull witnesse speaketh lyes.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from marking of added words (and possibly capitalisation and punctuation and footnotes))

Bshps A faythfull witnesse deliuereth soules: but a deceiptfull witnesse bryngeth foorth lyes.
(A faithful witness delivereth/delivers souls: but a deceitful witness bringeth/brings forth lies.)

Gnva A faithfull witnes deliuereth soules: but a deceiuer speaketh lyes.
(A faithful witness delivereth/delivers souls: but a deceiver speaketh/speaks lies.)

Cvdl A faithfull wytnesse delyuereth soules, but a lyar dysceaueth them.
(A faithful witness delivereth/delivers souls, but a lyar dysceaueth them.)

Wycl A feithful witnesse delyuereth soulis; and a fals man bringith forth leesyngis.
(A faithful witness delivereth/delivers souls; and a false man bringeth/brings forth falsehoods.)

Luth Ein treuer Zeuge errettet das Leben; aber ein falscher Zeuge betrügt.
(A loyal witness(n) saved/rescued the life; but a false/counterfeit witness(n) cheats/deceives.)

ClVg Liberat animas testis fidelis, et profert mendacia versipellis.][fn]
(Liberat souls testis faithful, and brings_forth lies versipellis.])

UHB מַצִּ֣יל נְ֭פָשׁוֹת עֵ֣ד אֱמֶ֑ת וְ⁠יָפִ֖חַ כְּזָבִ֣ים מִרְמָֽה׃ ‡

BrLXX Ῥύσεται ἐκ κακῶν ψυχὴν μάρτυς πιστὸς, ἐκκαίει δὲ ψευδῆ δόλιος.

BrTr A faithful witness shall deliver a soul from evil: but a deceitful man kindles falsehoods.