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Not Telling The Truth
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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.
Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices, — read the full passage →
be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;
and the truth shall make you free.'
and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;
Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;
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;
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?
`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.
These <FI>are<Fi> the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,
My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!
Cause me to tread in Thy truth, and teach me, For Thou <FI>art<Fi> the God of my salvation, Near Thee I have waited all the day.
so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?
God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'
And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.
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.'
sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;
having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.
Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth, — read the full passage →
The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment--a tongue of falsehood.
Show me, O Jehovah, Thy way, I walk in Thy truth, My heart doth rejoice to fear Thy name.
Send forth Thy light and Thy truth, They--they lead me, they bring me in, Unto Thy holy hill, and unto Thy tabernacles.
`Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.
if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;
And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,
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> ,
This <FI>is<Fi> thy lot, the portion of thy measures from Me--an affirmation of Jehovah, Because thou hast forgotten me, And dost trust in falsehood.
A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.
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;
if we may say--`we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk--we lie, and do not the truth;
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 revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.
Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.
The sum of Thy word <FI>is<Fi> truth, And to the age <FI>is<Fi> every judgment of Thy righteousness!
Lo, truth Thou hast desired in the inward parts, And in the hidden part Wisdom Thou causest me to know.
Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,
Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,
the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.
A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.
A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who doth sojourn in Thy tent? Who doth dwell in Thy holy hill? — read the full passage →
Thou destroyest those speaking lies, A man of blood and deceit Jehovah doth abominate.
for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity--but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.
A true witness is delivering souls, And a deceitful one breatheth out lies.
greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.
peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,
Pilate, therefore, said to him, `Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, `Thou dost say <FI>it<Fi> ; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'
because the sayings that Thou hast given to me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that from Thee I came forth, and they did believe that Thou didst send me.
Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?
for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;
But he answering said, `It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'
Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.
upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,
in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle--truth I say in Christ, I do not lie--a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.
Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;
if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;
And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →
and they send to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and the way of God in truth thou dost teach, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men;
And this a second time ye do, Covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, With weeping and groaning, Because there is no more turning unto the present, Or receiving of a pleasing thing from your hand. — read the full passage →
Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.
A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →
He who is walking uprightly, And working righteousness, And speaking truth in his heart. — read the full passage →
`Ye do not steal, nor feign, nor lie one against his fellow.
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.
That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life-- — read the full passage →
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ--who is blessed to the ages--hath known that I do not lie! --
so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,
`But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;
but let your word be, Yes, Yes, No, No, and that which is more than these is of the evil.
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.
And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.
Add not to His words, lest He reason with thee, And thou hast been found false.
The desirableness of a man <FI>is<Fi> his kindness, And better <FI>is<Fi> the poor than a liar.
A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →
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;
with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,
And the things that I write to you, lo, before God--I lie not;
`And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,
And Abraham journeyeth from thence toward the land of the south, and dwelleth between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourneth in Gerar; — read the full passage →
And the serpent saith unto the woman, `Dying, ye do not die,
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;
according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,
but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;
Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,
if ye had known me, my Father also ye would have known, and from this time ye have known Him, and have seen Him.'
`And when thou mayest pray, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites, because they love in the synagogues, and in the corners of the broad places--standing--to pray, that they may be seen of men; verily I say to you, that they have their reward.
A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.
An evil doer is attentive to lips of vanity, Falsehood is giving ear to a mischievous tongue.
A false word the righteous hateth, And the wicked causeth abhorrence, and is confounded.
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?
every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.
Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,
in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,
from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.
and when He may come--the Spirit of truth--He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;
Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.
In kindness and truth pardoned is iniquity, And in the fear of Jehovah Turn thou aside from evil.
For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips <FI>is<Fi> wickedness.
Near <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah to all those calling Him, To all who call Him in truth.
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