Topic

Lying

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Proverbs 12:22

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

Proverbs 6:16–19

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

Proverbs 19:9

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

Psalms 101:7

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

Proverbs 12:19

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

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 →

Luke 8:17

For nothing is hidden, that will not be revealed; nor anything secret, that will not be known and come to light.

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.

Exodus 20:16

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Ephesians 4:25

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

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.

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 19:5

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

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.

Leviticus 19:11

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

Proverbs 14:5

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

Proverbs 24:28

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

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 →

Proverbs 21:6

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

Psalms 58:3

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

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.

Proverbs 13:5

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

Colossians 3:9

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

Psalms 34:13

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Romans 12:17–21

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

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?

John 8:32

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Proverbs 26:18–19

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

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.

Proverbs 26:28

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

Proverbs 17:7

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

John 8:43–47

Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word. — read the full passage →

Psalms 120:2

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

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.

Psalms 119:163

I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.

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 →

1 John 4:1

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Luke 16:10

He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

Proverbs 10:18

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

Matthew 5:11

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Proverbs 14:25

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

Titus 1:2

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

Proverbs 19:22

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

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.”

Proverbs 10:9

He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

Hosea 4:2

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

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

1 Timothy 4:2

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

Psalms 31:18

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

1 Kings 22:21–23

A spirit came out and stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ — read the full passage →

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.

Psalms 5:6

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

Psalms 119:29

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

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.

1 Corinthians 6:9–11

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Revelation 22:15

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

Exodus 23:1

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

Genesis 3:4

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

2 Chronicles 18:20–22

A spirit came out, stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ “Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’ — read the full passage →

Luke 8:15

That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.

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 34:12–13

Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? — read the full passage →

Psalms 51:6

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

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?

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.

Ephesians 4:15–16

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

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 11:1

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

Psalms 119:69

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

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.

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.

Proverbs 26:24

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

Proverbs 25:18

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

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;

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,

Proverbs 20:17

Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

1 John 1:6

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

Matthew 5:37

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

James 5:12

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

Deuteronomy 5:20

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Romans 10:9

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Nahum 3:1

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

John 3:16–21

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. — 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.

Proverbs 17:4

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

Leviticus 19:11–12

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

Romans 16:17–18

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them. — read the full passage →

2 Chronicles 18:19–22

Yahweh said, ‘Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One spoke saying in this way, and another saying in that way. — read the full passage →

Matthew 18:15–17

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — 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.

Matthew 7:15

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

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.

Leviticus 6:1–7

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

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.

Micah 6:12

Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

Ephesians 4:15

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

Proverbs 10:32

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.

Joshua 2:4–6

The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I didn’t know where they came from. — read the full passage →

Psalms 44:21

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

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