43 Bible Verses about Lying And Deceit
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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.
You love evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food needful for me:
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me your law graciously.
The lip of truth shall be established forever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Let the lying lips be put to silence; who speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
He that works deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that tells lies shall not tarry in my sight.
Ephraim surrounds me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet walks with God, and is faithful with the saints.
Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
And the LORD said unto him, By what means? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, You shall 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, You shall entice him, and you shall also prevail: go out, and do even so.
A lying tongue hates those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth works ruin.
You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
And for this cause God shall send them a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
And they will deceive everyone his neighbor, 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 has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets, and the LORD has spoken evil concerning you.
For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
And both these kings' hearts shall be to do evil, and they shall speak lies at the same table; but it shall not prosper: for the end shall yet be at the time appointed.
You shall destroy them that speak falsehood: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
Trust not in a friend, put not confidence in a companion: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom.
But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, 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 feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has 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 your neighbor without cause; and deceive not with your 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 foreigners, whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
He said unto him, I am a prophet also as you are; and an angel spoke unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with you into your 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 their flocks 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: