Topic

Telling A Lie

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Proverbs 6:16–19

These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: — read the full passage →

Proverbs 12:19

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Ephesians 4:25

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Proverbs 19:5

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

Colossians 3:9–10

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 5:20

Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Proverbs 19:9

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

1 John 2:4

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Exodus 23:1

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Matthew 19:18

He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,

Revelation 21:8

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Numbers 23:19

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Exodus 20:16

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

John 14:15

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

John 3:17

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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