Topic

Liars

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Proverbs 19:9

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

John 8:44

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.

Revelation 21:8

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.”

Proverbs 12:22

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

Exodus 20:16

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Proverbs 12:19

Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.

Proverbs 6:16–19

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →

1 John 1:9

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

Proverbs 14:5

A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

Colossians 3:9

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Leviticus 19:11

“‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another.

Proverbs 13:5

A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.

Proverbs 19:5

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

Proverbs 26:28

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Psalms 101:7

He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.

Romans 12:19

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Proverbs 19:22

That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

Proverbs 17:4

An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

Psalms 119:163

I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.

1 Timothy 4:2

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Proverbs 21:6

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

Psalms 116:11

I said in my haste, “All men are liars.”

Acts 5:3

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?

Proverbs 25:18

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

Psalms 5:6

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Proverbs 17:7

Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.

Matthew 7:21–23

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 14:25

A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful.

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 take hold of the hope set before us.

Proverbs 24:28

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

Genesis 3:4

The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t surely die,

Exodus 23:1

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

James 1:26

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.

Proverbs 10:18

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

Revelation 21:27

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.

Psalms 119:69

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

Proverbs 26:18–19

Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death, — read the full passage →

Psalms 63:11

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.

Psalms 58:3

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

Numbers 23:19

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?

Titus 1:2

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Proverbs 30:5

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Psalms 109:2

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Psalms 119:29

Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!

Psalms 31:18

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Colossians 3:9–10

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 5:20

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Psalms 59:12

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

Zephaniah 3:13

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.”

Isaiah 32:7

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

Psalms 1:1–6

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

Revelation 2:2

“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.

Psalms 55:23

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.

1 Timothy 1:10

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

Ephesians 4:15

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

Matthew 15:18–20

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

John 17:17

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

Nahum 3:1

Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.

1 John 2:4

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

1 Peter 3:10

For, “He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

Romans 3:4

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.”

Hosea 4:2

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

Psalms 120:2

Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

Jeremiah 23:32

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.

Psalms 12:2

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Leviticus 19:11–12

“‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another. — read the full passage →

Revelation 21:7–8

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 30:6

Don’t you add to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.

1 Timothy 1:9–10

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 →

Ezekiel 13:19

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.

1 John 4:20

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?

Proverbs 11:1

A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

1 Timothy 3:1–16

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

Galatians 6:7–8

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. — read the full passage →

Hosea 11:12

Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is unfaithful to the Holy One.

Psalms 51:6

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

1 John 2:22

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.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Proverbs 26:24

A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.

Psalms 52:3

You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.

Ephesians 4:29

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

John 8:55

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.

Psalms 62:4

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

1 John 2:21

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.

James 3:1

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

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;

Psalms 23:1–6

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Revelation 12:9

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.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jeremiah 17:9

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

2 Timothy 3:16

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Philippians 4:6

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

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