Topic
Dealing With A Liar
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A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.
These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven <FI>are<Fi> abominations to His soul. — read the full passage →
An abomination to Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> lying lips, And stedfast doers <FI>are<Fi> his delight.
`And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment; — read the full passage →
`Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.
He dwelleth not in my house who is working deceit, Whoso is speaking lies Is not established before mine eyes.
`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.
A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.
A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!
Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,
The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment--a tongue of falsehood.
if any one may say--`I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God--whom he hath not seen--how is he able to love?
A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.
and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'
if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;
and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?
`Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him,
An evil doer is attentive to lips of vanity, Falsehood is giving ear to a mischievous tongue.
Thou destroyest those speaking lies, A man of blood and deceit Jehovah doth abominate.
O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!
The making of treasures by a lying tongue, <FI>Is<Fi> a vanity driven away of those seeking death.
`Ye do not steal, nor feign, nor lie one against his fellow.
`Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.
The desirableness of a man <FI>is<Fi> his kindness, And better <FI>is<Fi> the poor than a liar.
Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.
And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →
Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;
A false word the righteous hateth, And the wicked causeth abhorrence, and is confounded.
Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only;
The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.
Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.
Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices, — read the full passage →
And Peter said, `Ananias, wherefore did the Adversary fill thy heart, for thee to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back of the price of the place?
And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I--I do trust in Thee!
A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, <FI>Is<Fi> the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony.
Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.
he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;
Who is the liar, except he who is denying that Jesus is the Christ? this one is the antichrist who is denying the Father and the Son;
Balances of deceit <FI>are<Fi> an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight <FI>is<Fi> His delight.
and the long-suffering of our Lord count ye salvation, according as also our beloved brother Paul--according to the wisdom given to him--did write to you, — read the full passage →
let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'
Falsehood I have hated, yea I abominate <FI>it<Fi> , Thy law I have loved.
The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
O the happiness of the man Who hath made Jehovah his trust, And hath not turned unto the proud, And those turning aside to lies.
and without <FI>are<Fi> the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.
and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;
A true witness is delivering souls, And a deceitful one breatheth out lies.
if we may say--`we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk--we lie, and do not the truth;
that through two immutable things, in which <FI>it is<Fi> impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before <FI>us<Fi> ,
and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you--speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;
These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven <FI>are<Fi> abominations to His soul. — read the full passage →
`Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour--a false testimony.
Forged against me falsehood have the proud, I with the whole heart keep Thy precepts.
God <FI>is<Fi> not a man--and lieth, And a son of man--and repenteth! Hath He said--and doth He not do <FI>it<Fi> ? And spoken--and doth He not confirm it?
If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain <FI>is<Fi> the religion;
The way of falsehood turn aside from me And with Thy law favour me.
Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.
I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance, and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not, and hast found them liars,
Lo, I <FI>am<Fi> against the prophets of false dreams, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they recount them, and cause my people to err, By their falsehoods, and by their instability, And I--I have not sent them, Nor have I commanded them, And they are not at all profitable to this people, An affirmation of Jehovah.
With the mouth a hypocrite corrupteth his friend, And by knowledge the righteous are drawn out.
and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but--those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.
And the king doth rejoice in God, Boast himself doth every one swearing by Him, But stopped is the mouth of those speaking lies!
in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,
Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;
for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.
for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:
Woe <FI>to<Fi> the city of blood, She is all with lies--burglary--full, Prey doth not depart.
Crooked <FI>is<Fi> the heart above all things, And it <FI>is<Fi> incurable--who doth know it?
A ruler who is attending to lying words, All his ministers <FI>are<Fi> wicked.
he who is overcoming shall inherit all things, and I will be to him--a God, and he shall be to me--the son, — read the full passage →
Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
I did not write to you because ye have not known the truth, but because ye have known it, and because no lie is of the truth.
and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.
The remnant of Israel do no perversity, nor speak lies, Nor found in their mouth is a deceitful tongue, For they have delight, and have lain down, And there is none troubling.
As <FI>one<Fi> pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death, — read the full passage →
And the serpent saith unto the woman, `Dying, ye do not die,
And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, — read the full passage →
whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,
but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man; — read the full passage →
whenever, therefore, thou mayest do kindness, thou mayest not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory from men; verily I say to you--they have their reward!
Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,
and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.
upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,
having known this, that for a righteous man law is not set, but for lawless and insubordinate persons, ungodly and sinners, impious and profane, parricides and matricides, men-slayers, — read the full passage →
And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →
Yea, ye pierce Me concerning My people, For handfuls of barley, And for pieces of bread, to put to death Souls that should not die, And to keep alive souls that should not live, By your lying to My people--hearkening to lies.
`Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city; — read the full passage →
These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;
for `he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips--not to speak guile;
and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;'
But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?
that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;
because nothing shall be impossible with God.'
Add not to His words, lest He reason with thee, And thou hast been found false.
I said in my haste, `Every man <FI>is<Fi> a liar.'
and the great dragon was cast forth--the old serpent, who is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world--he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.
Abraham our father--was not he declared righteous out of works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar? — read the full passage →
<FI> him,<Fi> whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders, — read the full passage →
that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: YLT.