Topic

Dealing With A Liar

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Proverbs 19:9

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

Proverbs 6:16–19

These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: — read the full passage →

Proverbs 12:22

Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.

Matthew 12:36–37

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. — read the full passage →

Exodus 20:16

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Psalms 101:7

He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Proverbs 19:5

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

Proverbs 26:28

A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

Colossians 3:9

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Proverbs 12:19

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

1 John 4:20

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

Proverbs 14:5

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

Revelation 21:8

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 3:17

But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

Luke 17:3

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

Proverbs 17:4

A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

Psalms 5:6

Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

Psalms 120:2

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

Leviticus 19:11

Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

Exodus 23:1

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Proverbs 19:22

The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

Proverbs 10:18

He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

Galatians 5:19–23

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:25

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Proverbs 13:5

A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

James 2:24

Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

Psalms 58:3

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

Psalms 31:18

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

Proverbs 24:28

Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

Colossians 3:9–10

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; — read the full passage →

Acts 5:3

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Psalms 55:23

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

Proverbs 25:18

A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Proverbs 17:7

Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

1 John 2:4

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1 John 2:22

Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

Proverbs 11:1

A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.

2 Peter 3:15–16

And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; — read the full passage →

Romans 3:4

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Psalms 119:163

I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.

1 Corinthians 13:4–7

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Psalms 40:4

Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Revelation 22:15

For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

James 3:14

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Proverbs 14:25

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

1 John 1:6

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

Hebrews 6:18

That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

John 8:55

Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.

Proverbs 6:16–17

These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 5:20

Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Psalms 119:69

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

Numbers 23:19

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

James 1:26

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

Psalms 119:29

Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.

Psalms 12:2

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

Revelation 2:2

I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

Jeremiah 23:32

Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the Lord.

Proverbs 11:9

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

Revelation 21:27

And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Psalms 63:11

But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

1 Timothy 4:2

Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

1 Corinthians 10:31

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Romans 10:3

For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Nahum 3:1

Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

Revelation 21:7–8

He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. — read the full passage →

John 14:6

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

1 John 2:21

I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

Hebrews 11:6

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Zephaniah 3:13

The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

Proverbs 26:18–19

As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, — read the full passage →

Genesis 3:4

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

1 Timothy 4:1–2

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 1:10

For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

Matthew 15:18–20

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. — read the full passage →

Matthew 6:2

Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Proverbs 30:8

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

1 John 2:27

But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

Titus 1:2

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

1 Timothy 1:9–10

Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, — read the full passage →

Acts 5:1–11

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

Ezekiel 13:19

And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?

Revelation 22:14–15

Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. — read the full passage →

Jude 1:16

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.

1 Peter 3:10

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

Galatians 3:11

But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

Galatians 1:7

Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

Luke 1:37

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

Proverbs 30:6

Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

Psalms 116:11

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

James 2:21–24

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? — read the full passage →

2 Thessalonians 2:9–12

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:14

That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

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