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Lie
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A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.
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.
The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment--a tongue of falsehood.
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.'
`Ye do not steal, nor feign, nor lie one against his fellow.
No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .
`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.
having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,
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?
for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.
A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.
`Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.
And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →
Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;
A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.
He dwelleth not in my house who is working deceit, Whoso is speaking lies Is not established before mine eyes.
Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,
Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices, — read the full passage →
the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,
upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,
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;
whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,
Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.
A false word the righteous hateth, And the wicked causeth abhorrence, and is confounded.
The desirableness of a man <FI>is<Fi> his kindness, And better <FI>is<Fi> the poor than a liar.
A true witness is delivering souls, And a deceitful one breatheth out lies.
Falsehood I have hated, yea I abominate <FI>it<Fi> , Thy law I have loved.
(not by works that <FI>are<Fi> in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,
have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →
Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature; — read the full passage →
A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!
The making of treasures by a lying tongue, <FI>Is<Fi> a vanity driven away of those seeking death.
O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!
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;
in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,
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?
for nothing is secret, that shall not become manifest, nor hid, that shall not be known, and become manifest.
but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man; — read the full passage →
Thou destroyest those speaking lies, A man of blood and deceit Jehovah doth abominate.
`Ye do not steal, nor feign, nor lie one against his fellow. — read the full passage →
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.
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;
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> ,
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;
`He who is faithful in the least, <FI>is<Fi> also faithful in much; and he who in the least <FI>is<Fi> unrighteous, is also unrighteous in much;
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,
A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, <FI>Is<Fi> the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony.
Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.
Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.
The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
Lo, truth Thou hast desired in the inward parts, And in the hidden part Wisdom Thou causest me to know.
and Jehovah saith, Who doth entice Ahab, and he doth go up and fall in Ramoth-Gilead? and this one saith thus, and that one is saying thus. — read the full passage →
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,
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; — read the full passage →
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;
and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;
giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. — read the full passage →
but let your word be, Yes, Yes, No, No, and that which is more than these is of the evil.
`Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake--
These <FI>are<Fi> the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,
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.
Woe <FI>to<Fi> the city of blood, She is all with lies--burglary--full, Prey doth not depart.
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.
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.
As <FI>one<Fi> pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death, — read the full passage →
She hath slaughtered her slaughter, She hath mingled her wine, Yea, she hath arranged her table.
Forged against me falsehood have the proud, I with the whole heart keep Thy precepts.
The way of falsehood turn aside from me And with Thy law favour me.
For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me--A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!
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!
Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.
Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.
`Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour--a false testimony.
And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Is the hand of Jehovah become short? now thou dost see whether My word meeteth thee or not.'
`And God speaketh all these words, saying, — read the full passage →
And two of the messengers come towards Sodom at even, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot seeth, and riseth to meet them, and boweth himself--face to the earth, — read the full passage →
And the serpent saith unto the woman, `Dying, ye do not die,
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.
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 →
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.
and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;
and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ; — read the full passage →
And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them; — read the full passage →
wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word. — read the full passage →
and the truth shall make you free.'
`And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain <FI>it<Fi> , and bear fruit in continuance.
And Jesus having come to the house of the ruler, and having seen the minstrels and the multitude making tumult,
Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery--have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.
Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened. — read the full passage →
And the miser--his instruments <FI>are<Fi> evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.
By his lips doth a hater dissemble, And in his heart he placeth deceit,
Whoso is walking in integrity walketh confidently, And whoso is perverting his ways is known.
The sin of their mouth <FI>is<Fi> a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.
`And a man who committeth adultery with a man's wife--who committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour--the adulterer and the adulteress are surely put to death. — read the full passage →
`Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.
Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;
And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.
for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →
`But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: YLT.