Bible Verses about 'Lies'
| An honest witness does not deceive, but a false witness pours out lies. | A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. |
| Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies. | Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. |
| You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. | 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. |
| Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. | Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me. |
| He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him. | He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him. |
| Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. | Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. |
| Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool— how much worse lying lips to a ruler! | Fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a prince. |
| This is what the Lord says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’” | Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’” |
| Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. | Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. |
| For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech. They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it.” | 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.” |
| And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own. | And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. |
| A mediator, however, implies more than one party; but God is one. | Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one. |
| God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land. | God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land. |
| Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. | He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. |
| These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. | And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. |
Bible verse of the day
Who is he, this King of glory?The Lord Almighty—
he is the King of glory.