Topic

Dealing With A Liar

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Proverbs 19:9

A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that uttereth lies shall perish.

Proverbs 6:16–19

There are six things which Jehovah hateth; Yea, seven which are an abomination unto him: — read the full passage →

Proverbs 12:22

Lying lips are an abomination to Jehovah; But they that deal truly are his delight.

Matthew 12:36–37

And 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 neighbor.

Psalms 101:7

He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: He that speaketh falsehood shall not be established before mine eyes.

John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth 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 thereof.

Proverbs 19:5

A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that uttereth lies shall not escape.

Proverbs 26:28

A lying tongue hateth those whom it hath wounded; 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 doings,

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, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.

Proverbs 14:5

A faithful witness will not lie; But a false witness uttereth lies.

Revelation 21:8

But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

1 John 1:9

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

1 John 3:17

But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

Luke 17:3

Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother sin, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

Proverbs 17:4

An evil-doer giveth heed to wicked lips; Anda liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.

Psalms 5:6

Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.

Psalms 120:2

Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, Andfrom a deceitful tongue.

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.

Leviticus 19:11

Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor lie one to another.

Exodus 23:1

Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Proverbs 19:22

That which maketh a man to be desired is his kindness; And a poor man is better than a liar.

Proverbs 10:18

He that hideth hatred is of 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: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:25

Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: 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 that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.

Psalms 58:3

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

Psalms 31:18

Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.

Proverbs 24:28

Be not a witness against thy neighbor 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 doings, — read the full passage →

Acts 5:3

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

Psalms 55:23

But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty 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 neighbor 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 the liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, even he that denieth the Father and the Son.

Proverbs 11:1

A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; 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 to him, wrote unto you; — read the full passage →

Romans 3:4

God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.

Psalms 119:163

I hate and abhor falsehood; But thy law do I love.

1 Corinthians 13:4–7

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

Psalms 40:4

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

Revelation 22:15

Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

James 3:14

But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

Proverbs 14:25

A true witness delivereth souls; But he that uttereth lies causeth deceit.

1 John 1:6

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

Hebrews 6:18

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us:

John 8:55

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

Proverbs 6:16–17

There are six things which Jehovah hateth; Yea, seven which are an abomination unto him: — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 5:20

Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Psalms 119:69

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

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 will he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?

James 1:26

If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain.

Psalms 119:29

Remove from me the way of falsehood; And grant me thy law graciously.

Psalms 12:2

They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

Revelation 2:2

I know thy works, and thy toil and patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them that call themselves apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false;

Jeremiah 23:32

Behold, I am against them that prophesy lying dreams, saith Jehovah, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, saith Jehovah.

Proverbs 11:9

With his mouth the godless man destroyeth his neighbor; But through knowledge shall the righteous be delivered.

Revelation 21:27

and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that 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; For the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

1 Timothy 4:2

through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as 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 being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:

Nahum 3:1

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

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler hearkeneth to falsehood, All his servants are wicked.

Revelation 21:7–8

He that overcometh shall inherit these 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, and the truth, and the life: no one 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 because no lie is of the truth.

Hebrews 11:6

and without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after 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 madman 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

But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 1:10

for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

Matthew 15:18–20

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

Matthew 6:2

When therefore thou doest alms, sound not 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 received their reward.

Proverbs 30:8

Remove far from me falsehood and lies; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me:

1 John 2:27

And as for you, the anointing which ye received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any one teach you; but as his anointing teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in him.

Titus 1:2

in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;

1 Timothy 1:9–10

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinners, for the 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 ye have profaned 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 hearken unto lies.

Revelation 22:14–15

Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right to come to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. — read the full passage →

Jude 1:16

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaketh great swelling words), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.

1 Peter 3:10

For, He that would love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile:

Galatians 3:11

Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous 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 Cephas before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

Galatians 1:7

which is not another gospel: only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

Luke 1:37

For no word from God shall be void of power.

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 down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

James 2:21–24

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

2 Thessalonians 2:9–12

even he, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:14

that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

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