Bible Verses about Lying

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• Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,
  But those who deal truthfully are His delight.
  Proverbs 12:22speakinghonestytruth
• For
  “He who would love life
  And see good days,
  Let him refrain 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.”
  1 Peter 3:10-11lovepeacelife
• Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips
  And from a deceitful tongue.
  Psalm 120:2speakingredeemersoul
• He who walks uprightly,
  And works righteousness,
  And speaks the truth in his heart;
  He who does not backbite with his tongue,
  Nor does evil to his neighbor,
  Nor does he take up a reproach against his friend.
  Psalm 15:2-3truthblamelessgossip
• And He said, “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man.”
  Mark 7:20-23sinpurificationtemptation
• Keep your tongue from evil,
  And your lips from speaking deceit.
  Psalm 34:13speakingeviltruth
• Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.
  Colossians 3:9-10lifeconversiontransformation
• If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
  1 John 1:6sinhonestytruth
• Whoever hides hatred has lying lips,
  And whoever spreads slander is a fool.
  Proverbs 10:18speakinggossip
• He who walks with integrity walks securely,
  But he who perverts his ways will become known.
  Proverbs 10:9sinsafetylife
• A perverse man sows strife,
  And a whisperer separates the best of friends.
  Proverbs 16:28honestygossipfriendship
• A faithful witness does not lie,
  But a false witness will utter lies.
  Proverbs 14:5truthreliability
• ‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
  Matthew 19:18b-19lawlovefamily
• You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
  John 8:44devildesirestruth
• Remove falsehood and lies far from me;
  Give me neither poverty nor riches—
  Feed me with the food allotted to me.
  Proverbs 30:8materialismfoodmoney
• Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.
  Matthew 5:11blessingpersecutionevil
• The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;
  Pride and arrogance and the evil way
  And the perverse mouth I hate.
  Proverbs 8:13aweprideevil
• But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself? While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”
  Acts 5:3-4moneyhonestydevil
• A wholesome tongue is a tree of life,
  But perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
  Proverbs 15:4speakingSpiritgossip
• Excellent speech is not becoming to a fool,
  Much less lying lips to a prince.
  Proverbs 17:7wisdomspeaking
• Put away from you a deceitful mouth,
  And put perverse lips far from you.
  Proverbs 4:24speakingtruth
• A talebearer reveals secrets,
  But he who is of a faithful spirit conceals a matter.
  Proverbs 11:13reliabilityspeakinggossip
• The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
  But the mouth of the wicked what is perverse.
  Proverbs 10:32truthrighteousnessspeaking
• God is not a man, that He should lie,
  Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
  Has He said, and will He not do?
  Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
  Numbers 23:19Godreliabilitypromises
• Knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust.
  1 Timothy 1:9-11lawsinsexuality