15 Bible Verses about Lying, Examples Of

And the snake said, Death will not certainly come to you:

And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper?

Then Sarah said, I was not laughing; for she was full of fear. And he said, No, but you were laughing.

Then they took Joseph's coat, and put on it some of the blood from a young goat which they had put to death, And they took the coat to their father, and said, We came across this; is it your son's coat or not?

And they said to him, Your servants have come from a very far country, because of the name of the Lord your God: for the story of his great name, and of all he did in Egypt has come to our ears, And what he did to the two kings of the Amorites east of Jordan, to Sihon, king of Heshbon, and to Og, king of Bashan, at Ashtaroth. So the responsible men and all the people of our country said to us, Take food with you for the journey and go to them, and say to them, We are your servants: so now make an agreement with us.read more.
This bread which we have with us for our food, we took warm and new from our houses when starting on our journey to you; but now see, it has become dry and broken up. And these wine-skins were new when we put the wine in them, and now they are cracked as you see; and our clothing and our shoes have become old because of our very long journey here.

Then Delilah said to Samson, See, you have been making sport of me with false words; now, say truly how may you be put in bands?

And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, May the blessing of the Lord be with you: I have done what was ordered by the Lord.

And when Saul sent men to take David, she said, He is ill.

Then he said to him, I am a prophet like you; and an angel said to me by the word of the Lord, Take him back with you and give him food and water. But he said false words to him.

And he said, All is well: but my master has sent me, saying, Even now, two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim; will you give me a talent of silver and two changes of clothing for them?

But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.

A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.

And again he said with an oath, I have no knowledge of the man.

And at these words, Ananias went down on the earth, and his life went from him: and great fear came on all who were present.

One of their prophets has said, The men of Crete are ever false, evil beasts, lovers of food, hating work.