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Deuteronomy 19:15 · World English Bible

Deuteronomy 19:15 Meaning One Witness Shall Not Rise Up Against

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

What does Deuteronomy 19:15 mean?

Nothing settles inside a person on a single testimony. Scripture is the first witness, the outer record that tells you what is possible.

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Nothing settles inside a person on a single testimony. Scripture is the first witness, the outer record that tells you what is possible. It stays a claim you have only heard until a second witness rises to confirm it, and that second witness is your own experience. What another says happened, and what happens in you, must agree before a thing is fixed as fact.

The rock this measures against is God, and God here means your own awareness of being, the I AM in you. A promise read but never lived stands unconfirmed, however often it is repeated. The moment you undergo in yourself what the page told you, the two mouths speak the same word, and the matter is established. One account is a rumor. Two that match are settled truth.

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Live Deuteronomy 19:15 today

  1. Take one idea you believe on paper and test it on yourself today, once, in something small. Keep going until you have felt it, not just agreed with it.
  2. When someone tells you how something works, hold it lightly and kindly until you have lived a piece of it. Thank them for the first account, then go and get the second.
  3. Under pressure, when your head is quoting advice at you, ask whether you have ever actually been through it working. If not, run the smallest possible version right there and let your own experience speak.

What do I keep repeating that I have never once tested?

The same truth in other traditions

Buddhism · Kalama Sutta

Do not accept a teaching because it is written, repeated, or respected. Hold it only when you have tried it and seen in yourself what it claims.

Zen

A description of water will not wet your mouth. Drink, and then the words and your own tongue agree.

Sufism · Rumi

There is a difference between hearing of honey and having honey on your fingers. Until the second one arrives, you know only a rumor.

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