Bible Verses about Lying
- Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,
but those who act faithfully are his delight. - For “Whoever desires to love life
and see good days,
let him keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from speaking deceit;
let him turn away from evil and do good;
let him seek peace and pursue it.” - Deliver me, O Lord,
from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue. - He who walks blamelessly and does what is right
and speaks truth in his heart;
who does not slander with his tongue
and does no evil to his neighbor,
nor takes up a reproach against his friend. - Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from speaking deceit. - And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
- Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
- If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
- The one who conceals hatred has lying lips,
and whoever utters slander is a fool. - Whoever walks in integrity walks securely,
but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out. - A faithful witness does not lie,
but a false witness breathes out lies. - A dishonest man spreads strife,
and a whisperer separates close friends. - You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
- You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
- Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
give me neither poverty nor riches;
feed me with the food that is needful for me. - Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
- The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.
Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
and perverted speech I hate. - But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.”
- A gentle tongue is a tree of life,
but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. - Put away from you crooked speech,
and put devious talk far from you. - Fine speech is not becoming to a fool;
still less is false speech to a prince. - The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse. - God is not man, that he should lie,
or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? - Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets,
but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered. - Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
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