43 Bible Verses about Lying And Deceit
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for they have opened against me the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
Thou love evil more than good, and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,
Remove from me the way of falsehood, and grant me thy law graciously.
The lips of truth shall be established forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak against the righteous man insolently, with pride and contempt.
They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak.
He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood shall not be established before my eyes.
Ephraim encompasses me around with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah yet rules with God, and is faithful with the Holy One.
But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
And LORD said to him, With what? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shall entice him, and shall also prevail. Go forth, and do so.
Wickedness is in the midst of it. Oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.
And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shall entice him, and shall also prevail. Go forth, and do so.
A lying tongue hates those whom it has wounded, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Ye are from the father, the devil, and ye want to do the desires of your father. He was a man-killer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his
And because of this God will send them the force of a delusion, for them to believe a lie,
Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit. Through deceit they refuse to know me, says LORD.
And they will deceive each one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Now therefore, behold, LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and LORD has spoken evil concerning thee.
For the rich men of it are full of violence, and the inhabitants of it have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
And as for both these kings, their hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table. But it shall not prosper, for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
A TRUE witness delivers souls, but he who utters lies [causes] deceit.
Trust ye not in a neighbor. Put ye not confidence in a friend. Keep the doors of thy mouth from her who lays in thy bosom.
But Peter said, Ananias, why did Satan fill thy heart for thee to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back from the price of the land?
transgressing and denying LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens, whose mouth speaks deceit, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
And he said to him, I also am a prophet as thou are. And a [heavenly] agent spoke to me by the word of LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thy house that he may eat bread and drink water. [But] he lied to him.
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.
The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth. For they shall feed and lay down, and none shall make them afraid.
Lying lips are an abomination to LORD, but those who deal truly are his delight.
Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth.
For it is a rebellious people, lying sons, sons who will not hear the law of LORD,