Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
General references
Bible References
Lip
Zechariah 1:4
Be ye not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts: Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings, but they did not hear, nor hearken to me, says LORD.
Matthew 24:35
The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words may, no, not pass away.
But
Proverbs 19:9
A FALSE witness shall not be unpunished, and he who utters lies shall perish.
Job 20:5
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the profane but for a moment?
Psalm 52:5
God will likewise destroy thee forever. He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Acts 5:3
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?
General references
Genesis 39:17
And she spoke to him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, whom thou have brought to us, came in to me to mock me.