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Dealing With A Liar
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A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.
There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →
Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.
I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. — read the full passage →
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.
If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?
Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.
An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
“‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another.
“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.
He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →
Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.
You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, — read the full passage →
But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.
One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.
Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you; — read the full passage →
May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”
I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful.
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.
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 take hold of the hope set before us.
You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.
There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn’t send them, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh.
With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.
There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.
through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;
Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.
He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son. — read the full passage →
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”
Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death, — read the full passage →
The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t surely die,
But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →
for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. — read the full passage →
Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;
As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man slayers, — read the full passage →
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →
You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.
Blessed are those who do his commandments,that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. — read the full passage →
These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
For, “He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.
Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”
But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
and there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
Don’t you add to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
I said in my haste, “All men are liars.”
The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? — read the full passage →
even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, — read the full passage →
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
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