18 Bible Verses about Lies

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Colossians 3:9-10

You must not lie to one another. For you have stripped off your old self with its ways and have put on that new self newly made in the likeness of its Creator, to know him fully.

Acts 5:1-10

But a man named Ananias, who, with his wife Sapphira, had sold a piece of property, with his wife's connivance appropriated some of the price received, and brought only a part of it to put at the disposal of the apostles. And Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan taken such possession of your heart that you should lie to the holy Spirit, by appropriating part of the price of your land?read more.
As long as it was unsold was it not yours, and after it was sold was not the money under your control? How could you think of doing such a thing? You did not lie to men but to God!" When Ananias heard these words he fell down and expired, and everyone who heard them spoken was appalled. The younger men got up and wrapping his body up carried it out and buried it. About three hours later, his wife came in, without having learned what had happened. Peter said to her, "Tell me, did you sell the land for such and such a sum?" "Yes," she said, "that was it." Peter said to her, "How could you two agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? There at the door are the footsteps of the men who buried your husband, and they will carry you out also." She instantly fell down at his feet and expired. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

Romans 3:8

And why not say, as people abuse us for saying and charge us with saying, "Let us do evil that good may come out of it"? Such people will be condemned as they deserve!

1 Timothy 1:9-10

with the understanding that law is not intended for upright men but for the lawless and disorderly, the godless and irreligious, the irreverent and profane, men who kill their fathers or mothers, murderers, immoral people, men sexually perverted, kidnapers, liars, perjurers, or whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,

Revelation 2:2

I know what you have done; your hard work and your endurance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, and that you have tested those who claimed to be apostles when they were not, and have found them to be impostors.

1 Timothy 4:1-2

The Spirit distinctly says that in later times some will turn away from the faith, and devote their attention to deceitful spirits and the things that demons teach through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences

1 John 2:22

Who is such a liar as the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the real Antichrist??he man who disowns the Father and the Son.

Revelation 13:14

It leads the inhabitants of the earth astray by the wonders it is allowed to do on behalf of the animal, telling the inhabitants of the earth to erect a statue to the animal that bears the mark of the sword-thrust and yet lives.

Revelation 20:7-10

When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison, and will go out to lead astray the heathen in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, and to muster them for battle, in numbers like the sand of the seashore. They came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the encampment of God's people, and the beloved city. Then fire came down from heaven and consumed them,read more.
and the devil who led them astray was flung into the fiery, sulphurous lake, where the animal and the false prophet were, there to be tortured day and night forever and ever.

1 John 2:27

You still retain in your hearts the anointing with the Spirit that you received from him, and you do not need to have anyone teach you. But just as that anointing of his teaches you about everything, and as it is true and no falsehood, keep in union with him just as it has taught you to do.

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