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'''False witness''' is a [[sin]] forbidden by the the ninth commandment of the [[Decalogue]].

The ninth Commandment forbids bearing false witness against one’s neighbour.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus20.16,%20Deuteronomy%205.20&version=RMNN;ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> False witness (false testimony) is among the things that defile a person<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew15.18-20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and among the seven things God hates.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%206.16-19&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>

A charge was established only on the evidence of two or three witnesses<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy19.15,%2017.6-7,%20Numbers35.30,%20Matthew%2018.15-17,%20John%208.17,%20Hebrews10.28,%201Timothy%205.19&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> If the witness is a liar, they must do to him as he intended (meant) to do to his brother, to be an example to the others.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy19.15-21&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>

The witness who hid what he had seen or what he knew bore his iniquity; if he realized his guilt, he had to [[confess]] his [[sin]], brought to the Lord a female lamb or goat from the flock (or two turtledoves or two pigeons, or a tenth of an ephah of fine flour) for a sin offering as his compensation for the sin he had committed. And the priest made atonement for him for his sin and he was forgiven.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus5.1-13&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>

The lying witness is a deceitful man,<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus23.1,%20Proverbs%2012.17,14.5,%2014.25,%2024.28,%20Psalm%2027.12,%2035.11&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> who mocks at justice.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2019.28&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>He is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2025.18&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> ″A false witness will not go unpunished.″ king [[Solomon]] says.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov19.5,9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>″A false witness will perish″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov21.28&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>(loses [[eternal life]]) if he does not [[repent]].

Some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia came upon Stephen and seized him and brought him before the council and set up false witnesses against him. These false witnesses said: "This man never ceases to speak words agains this holy place ([[Temple of Jerusalem]]) and the law, for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place (Stephen said that the temple of Jesus′ body had been destroyed by others but raise it up by Him in three days, according with what Jesus had said <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202.18-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>)and the customs that Moses delivered to us."(Stephen said what Jesus had said namely He had come to fulfil the Law of [[Moses]] and the Prophets<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205.17&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw Stephen′ s face was like the face of an [[angel]].<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts6.8-15&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>