Bible Verses about 'Lies'
- An honest witness does not deceive,
but a false witness pours out lies. - Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from telling lies. - 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.
- Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread. - He reveals deep and hidden things;
he knows what lies in darkness,
and light dwells with him. - Let your eyes look straight ahead;
fix your gaze directly before you. - Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool—
how much worse lying lips to a ruler! - 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.’” - 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.
- 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.” - And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
- A mediator, however, implies more than one party; 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. - 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.
- 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.
Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up.