43 Bible Verses about Lying And Deceit

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.

Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.

A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.

For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

And both these kings' 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 delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.

Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;

Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: