What is required in the ninth commandment?
That I bear false witness against no man,1 nor falsify any man's words;2 that I be no backbiter, nor slanderer;3 that I do not judge, nor join in condemning any man rashly, or unheard;4 but that I avoid all sorts of lies and deceit, as the proper works of the devil,5 unless I would bring down upon me the heavy wrath of God;6 likewise, that in judgment and all other dealings I love the truth, speak it uprightly and confess it;7 also that I defend and promote, as much as I am able, the horror and good character of my neighbour.8
1 Prov. 19:5, 9; Prov. 21:28.