Exodus 23:1 says, Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.  Bearing false witness was a sin in God's eyes, and it still is today.  We hear a lot today about someone being accused of lying about someone else, but as followers of Christ, we should make sure that we are not guilty of doing so.  In the day of social media, which is often very unsocial, it is easy to repeat lies, but I believe that we have a responsibility to make sure that what we are saying is the truth.  Verse two states, Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:  The Israelites were warned to not just follow the crowd in what they were saying.  Likewise, we today cannot just base what we say on what most of those around us believe, but we must seek the truth and only proclaim what is consistent with God's truth.  Just because everyone says a certain thing does not make it true.  Verse three adds, Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.  People were not to be judged differently just because they were poor.  The poor may not have been able to afford to defend themselves well in court, but they were to be given a fair trial.  There is too much difference today in how the rich and poor are treated in court, and often in the sentences that they receive if found guilt.  This is not what God expects from His people.  Verse four declares, If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.  The Israelites were not just expected to deal honestly with their friends, but with their enemies also.  Just because someone was their enemy didn't give them the right to keep something that belonged to the enemy if they found it.  God tells us that we are to love our enemies, and we cannot treat them unfairly if we do.  Verse five adds, If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.  Not only were the people of Israel to return something that they found that belonged to an enemy, if they saw someone who hated them struggling under a heavy burden, they were to help them as well.  How often do we delight to see those that hate us struggling or suffering and feel that they deserve it and not only don't help them but rejoice in their suffering?  This is not what God's word teaches us.  Verse six says, Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.  This is an expansion on treating the poor unfairly.  We are not to have one system of justice for the rich and another for the poor.  Verse seven states, Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.  Just like the people of Israel, we are not to join those around us in following a falsehood.  As a matter of fact, we are to keep far from it.  We are not to kill the righteous, but we are to allow God to be the judge of all.  Our task is not to judge, but to reach the lost with the gospel of Christ.  Verse eight declares, And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.  Judges and witnesses were not to accept gifts because that could lead them to pervert the truth, or the words of the righteous.  If we have a question about the truth of something today, we cannot just repeat it or do what benefits us most financially, but we must seek God's guidance as to what we should do or say.  Verse nine proclaims, Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.  The Israelites were not to oppress the stranger, because they knew what it was like to be a stranger from their experience in Egypt.  God freed them from that oppression, and if we are followers of Christ today, He has freed us from the oppression of sin.  We should remember this when we deal with the strangers, or lost people around us.