Bible Verses about Lying

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• Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh,
  but those who do the truth are his delight.
  Proverbs 12:22speakinghonestytruth
• For,
  “He who would 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.”
  1 Peter 3:10-11lovepeacelife
• Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips,
  from a deceitful tongue.
  Psalm 120:2speakingredeemersoul
• He who walks blamelessly and does what is right,
  and speaks truth in his heart;
  he who doesn’t slander with his tongue,
  nor does evil to his friend,
  nor casts slurs against his fellow man.
  Psalm 15:2-3truthblamelessgossip
• Keep your tongue from evil,
  and your lips from speaking lies.
  Psalm 34:13speakingeviltruth
• He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile the man.”
  Mark 7:20-23sinpurificationtemptation
• Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator.
  Colossians 3:9-10lifeconversiontransformation
• If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie and don’t tell the truth.
  1 John 1:6sinhonestytruth
• He who hides hatred has lying lips.
  He who utters a slander is a fool.
  Proverbs 10:18speakinggossip
• He who walks blamelessly walks surely,
  but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
  Proverbs 10:9sinsafetylife
• A truthful witness will not lie,
  but a false witness pours out lies.
  Proverbs 14:5truthreliability
• A perverse man stirs up strife.
  A whisperer separates close friends.
  Proverbs 16:28honestygossipfriendship
• 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 the father of lies.
  John 8:44devildesirestruth
• ‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
  Matthew 19:18b-19lawlovefamily
• Remove far from me falsehood and lies.
  Give me neither poverty nor riches.
  Feed me with the food that is needful for me.
  Proverbs 30:8materialismfoodmoney
• Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
  Matthew 5:11blessingpersecutionevil
• The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil.
  I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
  Proverbs 8:13aweprideevil
• 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? While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”
  Acts 5:3-4moneyhonestydevil
• A gentle tongue is a tree of life,
  but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
  Proverbs 15:4speakingSpiritgossip
• Put away from yourself a perverse mouth.
  Put corrupt lips far from you.
  Proverbs 4:24speakingtruth
• Excellent speech isn’t fitting for a fool,
  much less do lying lips fit a prince.
  Proverbs 17:7wisdomspeaking
• The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
  but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.
  Proverbs 10:32truthrighteousnessspeaking
• One who brings gossip betrays a confidence,
  but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.
  Proverbs 11:13reliabilityspeakinggossip
• God is not a man, that he should lie,
  nor a son of man, that he should repent.
  Has he said, and he won’t do it?
  Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?
  Numbers 23:19Godreliabilitypromises
• As knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine, according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
  1 Timothy 1:9-11lawsinsexuality