50 Bible Verses about Lies

Who the man desiring life, loving days, to see good? Watch thy tongue from evil; and thy lips from speaking deceit

Wherefore falsehood ye having put away, speak the truth each with his neighbor: for ye are members one of another.

Lie not to one another, having put off the old man with big deeds; And having put on the new, being renewed in knowledge according to the image of him having created him:

Thou shalt not testify against thy friend for falsehood.

And thou shalt not speak false testimony against thy friend:

Ye shall not steal and ye shall not deceive, and ye shall not lie each to his neighbor. And ye shall not swear in my name for falsehood, and profane the name of thy God: I Jehovah.

These six Jehovah hated, and seven an abomination of his soul: Eyes being lifted up; a tongue of falsehood, and hands shedding innocent blood,

Lips of falsehood an abomination of Jehovah: and they doing faithfulness his delight

The heart is deceitful above all, and man himself, who shall know him? I Jehovah searching the heart, trying the reins, to give to each according to his way, according to the fruit of his doings.

And the serpent will say to the woman, Dying ye shall not die. For God is knowing in the day of your eating from it, and your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

And Jehovah will say to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? and he will say, I know not: am I my brother's watcher?

And it shall be when he came near to go to Egypt, he will say to Sarai his wife, Behold, now I knew that thou wert a fair woman to see. And it shall be when the Egyptians shall see thee, they shall say, This is his wife; and they will kill me, and thee they will permit to live. Say, now, thou my sister, that it shall be well to me because of thee, and my soul shall live by means of thee.

And Sarah will deny, saying, I did not laugh; for she was afraid. And he will say, Nay, for thou didst laugh.

And Abraham will remove from thence to the land of the south, and will dwell between Kadesh and between Shur, and will sojourn in Gerar. And Abraham will say as to Sarah his wife, This my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, will send and take Sarah.

And Isaak dwelt in Gerar. And the men of the place will ask concerning his wife; and he will say, She is my sister: for he will be afraid to say, My wife, lest the men of the place will kill me for Rebekah, because she is good in appearance.

And he will go to his father and will say, My father. And he will say, Behold me; who thou my son? And Jacob will say to his father, I am Esau thy first-born; I did according to that thou spakest to me: arise, now, sit and eat from my hunting, so that thy soul shall praise me.

And he will say, Peace. My lord sent me, saying, Behold, now there came here to me two boys from mount Ephraim from the sons of the prophets: wilt thou give to them a talent of silver and two changes of garments? And Naaman will say, Be content, take two talents And he will press upon him, and he Will bind two talents of silver in two bags, and two changes of garments, and he will give to his two boys, and they will lift up before him. And he will come to the hill and; take from their hand and deposit in the house: and he will send away the men, said they will go.read more.
And he came in, and he will stand by his lord: and Elisha will say to him, From whence, Gehazi? And he will say, Thy servant wait not hence and thence. And he will say to him, Went not my heart when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to take silver, and to take garments, and olive trees, and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and servants and maids? And the leprosy of Naaman shall cleave upon thee and upon thy seed forever. And he will go forth from his face being leprous as snow.

And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, And separated from the price, his wife also knowing; and having brought a certain part, laid at the feet of the sent. And Peter said, Ananias, wherefore filled Satan thy heart, for thee to belie the Holy Spirit, and separate from the price of the farmread more.
Remaining, did it not remain to thee? and sold, it was in thy power: for what hast thou put this thing in thy heart? thou hast not lied to men, but to God. And Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, he expired: and great fear was upon all them hearing these things. And the younger having risen up, drew him together, and having carried out, interred. And there was an interval of about three hours, and his wife not knowing that done, came in. And Peter answered to her, Tell me, if for so much ye sold the farm? And she said, Yes, for so much. And Peter said to her, For what was it agreed by you to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them having interred thy husband at the door, and they shall carry thee out. And she fell immediately at his feet, and expired: and the young men having come in, found her dead, and having carried out, interred near her husband.

Then they put under men, saying, That we have heard him speaking defaming words against Moses, and God.

And not, (as we are defamed, and some have declared us to say,) That we should do evil things, that good things might come: whose judgment is just.

A witness of falsehoods shall not be unpunished, and he breathing out lies shall perish.

Thou shalt destroy those speaking falsehood: a man of bloods and deceit Jehovah will abhor.

Thy tongue will purpose mischief as a razor being sharpened, working deceit. Thou lovedst evil above good; falsehood more than speaking justice. Silence. Thou lovedst all words of destruction, a tongue of deceitread more.
Also God will break thee down forever; he will take thee and sweep thee away from the tent, and root thee up from the land of the living. Silence.

And thou, O God, wilt bring them down to the well of destruction: men of bloods and deceit shall not halve their days; and I will trust in thee.

He doing deceit shall not dwell in the midst of my house: he speaking falsehoods shall not be prepared before mine eyes.

For from their little even to their great, every one plundering, plundered; and from the prophet and even to the priest every one did falsehood. And they will heal the breaking of the daughter of my people by making light, and saying, Peace, peace; and no peace. Were they ashamed when they did abomination? also shaming they will not be ashamed; also they knew not feeling shame; for this they shall fall with those falling: in the time of my reviewing them they shall faint, said Jehovah.

Behold me against them prophesying dreams of falsehood, says Jehovah, and they will recount them, and will cause my people to wander by their falsehoods and by their boasting; and I sent them not, and I commanded them not; and helping, they shall be of no profit to this people, says Jehovah.

Wo! to the city of bloods: all of it was filled with falsehood, with violence; the prey will not withdraw.

Knowing this, that the law is laid down not for the just one, but for the lawless and disorderly, for the profane and sinful, for the wicked and unholy, for the patricides and matricides, for manslayers, For fornicators, unchaste, man-stealers, liars, the perjured, and if there be any other thing opposed to sound doctrine;

But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: which is the second death,

And without, dogs, and charmers and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one loving and doing a lie.

God lives, he removed my judgment; and the Almighty embittered my soul; For all the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God in my nose; If my lips shall speak iniquity, and my tongue if it shall murmur deceitread more.
Far be it to me if I shall justify you: till I expire I will not remove my integrity from me.

I know thy works, and thy fatigue, and thy patience, and that thou canst not bear the wicked: and thou bast tried them saying they are sent, and are not, and thou Last found them liars:

He hating will be known by his lips, and he will set deceit in his midst; When his voice will compassionate, thou shalt not believe him, for seven abominations in his heart Hatred will be covered by deceit, his evil will be revealed in the convocation.read more.
He digging a pit shall fall into it: and he rolling a stone it shall turn back upon him. A tongue of falsehood will hate its crushing, and a smooth mouth will make an overthrow.

And the Spirit says expressly, that in later times some shall be removed from the faith, holding to deceitful spirits, and doctrines of evil spirits; In the hypocrisy of speaking falsely; burned with a hot iron in their own consciousness;

And the spirit will go forth and stand before Jehovah, and he will say, I will deceive him. And Jehovah will say, By what? And he will say, I will go forth and be to him a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he will say, Thou shalt deceive, and thou shalt be able: go forth and do thus. And now behold, Jehovah gave a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and Jehovah spake evil concerning thee.

And a spirit will come forth and stand before Jehovah, and say, I will persuade. And Jehovah will say, In what? And he will say, I will go forth and be for a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all his prophets. And he will say, Thou shalt persuade, and also thou shalt prevail: go and do thus. And now behold Jehovah gave a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of these thy prophets, and Jehovah spake evil against thee.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the eager desires of your father will ye do. He was slaying men from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he would speak a lie, he speaks of his own things; for he is a liar, and the father of him.

Who is a liar if not he denying that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, denying the Father and the Son.

And he deceives them dwelling upon earth by the signs which were given him to do before the wild beast; saying to them dwelling upon earth, to make an image to the wild beast, who has the blow of the sword, and he lived.

And when the thousand years should be finished, Satan shall be loosed from his prison, And he shall go forth to deceive the nations that in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for war: whose number as the sand of the sea. And they went up upon the breadth of the earth, and they surrounded the camp of the holy, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.read more.
And the devil deceiving them was cast into the lake of fire and sulphur, where are the wild beast and false prophet, and they shall be tortured day and night for ever and ever.

He saying, I have known him, and not keeping his commands, is a liar, and in him is not the truth.

If any say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he not loving his brother whom he has seen, God whom he has not seen, how can he love?

And the anointing which ye received from him remains in you, and ye have no need that any teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is true, and is no lie, and as it taught you, ye shall remain in him.

The unjust turned aside from the belly: they went astray from the womb, speaking falsehood.

A witness of faithfulnesses will not lie: and a witness of falsehood will breathe out lies.

Enough if ye will not make known to me the dream, this one edict for you; and ye divided out the word of falsehood and this corruption to say before me, till that the time shall change: therefore say to me the dream and I shall know that ye will show me its interpretation.

By their evil they will gladden the king, and the chiefs by their falsehoods.

Who will give my head waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears? and I will weep day and night for the wounded of the daughter of my people. Who will give me in the desert a lodging-place of travelers? and I will leave my people and go from them, for they all commit adultery; an assembly of those acting faithlessly. And they will bend their tongue, their bow, a lie: and they were not strong for faithfulness upon the land; for from evil to evil they went forth, and they knew me not, says Jehovah.read more.
Watch ye each from his neighbor, and to any brother ye shall not trust, for every brother deceiving, will deceive, and every neighbor will go tale-bearing. And they will mock, a man upon his neighbor, and they will not speak the truth: they taught their tongue to speak falsehood, they wearied themselves to sin.