33 Bible Verses about Lying
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Lips of falsehood an abomination of Jehovah: and they doing faithfulness his delight
Ye shall not steal and ye shall not deceive, and ye shall not lie each to his neighbor.
These six Jehovah hated, and seven an abomination of his soul: Eyes being lifted up; a tongue of falsehood, and hands shedding innocent blood, A heart fabricating purposes of iniquity; feet being quick to run to evil,read more.
A witness of falsehood, breathing out lies, and sending strife between brethren.
But your iniquities were separating between you and between your God, and your sins caused to hide;the face from you from hearing. For your hands were polluted with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips spake falsehood, your tongue will mutter evil.
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.
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 Peter said, Ananias, wherefore filled Satan thy heart, for thee to belie the Holy Spirit, and separate from the price of the farm
And he will say, At this appointment about the time thou living to embrace a son. And she will say, My lord, thou man of God, do not deceive With thy servant
And she will say, Did I ask a son from my lord? said I not, Thou shalt not deceive me?
And if ye have bitter envy and intrigue in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth.
The lip of excellence is not becoming to, the foolish one: much less the lip. of falsehood to the noble one.
O Jehovah, deliver my soul from lips of falsehood, from a tongue of deceit.
Wherefore falsehood ye having put away, speak the truth each with his neighbor: for ye are members one of another.
He fed upon ashes: a deceived heart turned him away, and he shall not deliver his soul, and he shall not say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
The lip of truth shall be prepared forever: and the tongue of falsehood while I shall wink.
A witness of falsehoods shall not be unpunished, and he breathing out lies shall not escape.
A witness of falsehoods shall not be unpunished, and he breathing out lies shall perish.
A tongue of falsehood will hate its crushing, and a smooth mouth will make an overthrow.
For if the truth of God in my lying abounded to his glory; why yet am I judged as sinful?
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Adversary » Power of » Lying
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.
Character » Of the wicked » Lying
The unjust turned aside from the belly: they went astray from the womb, speaking falsehood.
Surely they counseled to thrust down his lifting up: they will delight in falsehood: with their mouth they will praise, and in their inward parts they will curse. Silence.
None called upon justice, and none judged in truth: trusting in vanity and speaking evil, they conceived labor and brought forth vanity.
Character of the wicked » Lying
The unjust turned aside from the belly: they went astray from the womb, speaking falsehood.
Surely they counseled to thrust down his lifting up: they will delight in falsehood: with their mouth they will praise, and in their inward parts they will curse. Silence.
None called upon justice, and none judged in truth: trusting in vanity and speaking evil, they conceived labor and brought forth vanity.
Covetousness » Leads to » Lying
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.
Hatred » We should exhibit against » Lying
Kings » Specially warned against » Lying
The lip of excellence is not becoming to, the foolish one: much less the lip. of falsehood to the noble one.
Lying » A characteristic of the apostacy
In the hypocrisy of speaking falsely; burned with a hot iron in their own consciousness;
Whose arrival is according to the energy of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
Lying » Excludes from heaven
And there came not into her anything common, and any doing abomination, and a lie: but they written in the book of life of the Lamb.
And without, dogs, and charmers and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one loving and doing a lie.
Lying » Forbidden
Ye shall not steal and ye shall not deceive, and ye shall not lie each to his neighbor.
Lying » False witnesses addicted to
A witness of faithfulnesses will not lie: and a witness of falsehood will breathe out lies.
Lying » False prophets addicted to
And in the prophets of Jerusalem I saw a horrible thing, committing adultery and going in falsehood: and they strengthened the hands of those doing evil, they turned not back a man from his evil: they were to me all of them as Sodom, and those dwelling in her as Gomorrah.
And her prophets plastered plaster upon them, seeing vanity, and divining to them falsehood, saying Thus said the Lord Jehovah; and Jehovah spoke not
Lying » Saints » Hate
The just one will hate the word of falsehood: and the unjust one will be loathsome and be put to shame.
Lying » Saints » Pray to be preserved from
Vanity and the word of falsehood remove far from me; thou wilt not give to me poverty and riches; feed me with bread of my allowance:
Lying » Saints » Avoid
The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, and they shall not speak falsehood: and in their mouth shall not be found a tongue of deceit: for they shall feed and lie down, and none terrifying.
And he will say, Surely they my people, sons that will not lie: and he will be to them for Saviour.
Lying » The wicked » Prepare their tongues for
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.
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.
Lying » Lying spirit from God
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.
Lying » Punishment for
Thou shalt destroy those speaking falsehood: a man of bloods and deceit Jehovah will abhor.
What shall be given to thee? and what shall be added to thee, thou tongue of deceit? Arrows of the strong one sharpened with burning coals of broom.
Lying » The devil excites men to
And Peter said, Ananias, wherefore filled Satan thy heart, for thee to belie the Holy Spirit, and separate from the price of the farm
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.
Lying » Antinomians guilty of
If we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we are deceived, and do not the truth:
He saying, I have known him, and not keeping his commands, is a liar, and in him is not the truth.
Lying » Exemplified » Joseph's brethren
And they will take Joseph's tunic, and will slaughter a he-goat of the goats, and will dip the tunic in the blood. And they will send the tunic, reaching down to the soles of the feet., and will bring to their father, and they will say, We found this: recognise now, is this thy son's tunic or not?
Lying » Hateful to God
These six Jehovah hated, and seven an abomination of his soul: Eyes being lifted up; a tongue of falsehood, and hands shedding innocent blood, A heart fabricating purposes of iniquity; feet being quick to run to evil, read more.
A witness of falsehood, breathing out lies, and sending strife between brethren.
Lying » They who are guilty of, shall be cast into hell
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,
Lying » Exemplified » Michal
And Saul will send messengers to take David, and she will say, He sick.
Lying » Exemplified » saul
And Samuel will come to Saul: and Saul will say to him, Blessed thou of Jehovah: I set up the word of Jehovah.
Lying » Leads to » Hatred
A tongue of falsehood will hate its crushing, and a smooth mouth will make an overthrow.
Lying » The evil of rulers hearkening to
A ruler listening to the word of falsehood, all serving him are unjust
Lying » Folly of concealing hatred by
He covering hatred with lips of falsehood, and he bringing forth slander, is foolish.
Lying » Poverty preferable to
The desire of man his mercy: and the poor good above the man of falsehood.
Lying » Shall be detected
The lip of truth shall be prepared forever: and the tongue of falsehood while I shall wink.
Lying » An abomination to God
Lips of falsehood an abomination of Jehovah: and they doing faithfulness his delight
Lying » Exemplified » Prophet of bethel
And he will say to him, I also a prophet as thou; and a messenger spake to me in the word of Jehovah, saying, Turn him back with thee to thy house; and he shall eat bread and drink water. Lying to him.
Lying » Exemplified » Gibeonites
And they will say to him, From a land very far off thy servants came, for the name of Jehovah thy God; for we heard his fame and all that he did in Egypt And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan, to Sihon, king of Heshbon, and to Og, king of Bashan, in Ashtaroth. And our old men and all the inhabitants of our land will say to us, saying, Take in your hand food for the way, and go to meet them, and say to them, We your servants: and now cut out to us a covenant: read more.
This the hot bread we took it for food from our houses in the day we came forth to come to you; and now, behold, it dry, and it was crumbs And these leather sacks of wine which we filled, new, and behold, they were rent; and these our garments and our shoes worn out from the exceeding greatness of the way.
Lying » Exemplified » David
And David will say to Abimelech the priest, The king commanded me a word, and he will say to me, A man shall not know any thing of the word for which I sent thee, and what I commanded thee: and the boys I showed to such a place a certain one.
Lying » Exemplified » Sarah
And Sarah will deny, saying, I did not laugh; for she was afraid. And he will say, Nay, for thou didst laugh.
Lying » Exemplified » jacob
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.
Lying » Exemplified » Peter
Lying » The wicked » Give heed to
He doing evil attends upon, lips of vanity; he lying feeds upon a tongue of mischief
Lying » Leads to » Love of impure conversation
He doing evil attends upon, lips of vanity; he lying feeds upon a tongue of mischief
Lying » Vanity of getting riches by
The making treasures by the tongue of falsehood is vanity scattered from those seeking death.
Lying » A hindrance to prayer
But your iniquities were separating between you and between your God, and your sins caused to hide;the face from you from hearing. For your hands were polluted with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips spake falsehood, your tongue will mutter evil.
Lying » Unbecoming in rulers
The lip of excellence is not becoming to, the foolish one: much less the lip. of falsehood to the noble one.
Lying » Exemplified » Gehazi
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?
Lying » Exemplified » Samson
And Delilah will say to Samson, Behold, thou deceivest me, and thou wilt speak to me lies: this time announce to me now in what thou shalt be bound.
Lying » Exemplified » Cain
And Jehovah will say to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? and he will say, I know not: am I my brother's watcher?
Lying » Saints » Reject those who practice
He doing deceit shall not dwell in the midst of my house: he speaking falsehoods shall not be prepared before mine eyes.
Lying » Often accompanied by gross crimes
Hear the word of Jehovah, ye sons of Israel: for a contention to Jehovah with the inhabitants of the land, for no truth and no kindness and no knowledge of God in the land. Swearing and lying, and breaking in pieces, and stealing and committing adultery, they broke forth; and bloods touched upon bloods.
Lying » Hypocrites, a seed of
Against whom will ye deride? against whom will ye make broad the mouth, will ye thrust out the tongue? are ye not children of transgressing and a seed of falsehood?
Lying » Hypocrites addicted to
Ephraim surrounded me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit: and Judah even ruled with God, and was faithful with the holy ones.
Lying » Exemplified
Lying » Exemplified » Cretans
A certain of them said, their own prophet, The Cretians always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies.
Lying » The wicked » Addicted to, from their infancy
The unjust turned aside from the belly: they went astray from the womb, speaking falsehood.
Lying » The wicked » Bring forth
Behold, lie will bring forth vanity, and he conceived trouble, and he will bring forth falsehood.
Lying » The wicked » Delight in
Surely they counseled to thrust down his lifting up: they will delight in falsehood: with their mouth they will praise, and in their inward parts they will curse. Silence.
Lying » The wicked » Love
Lying » Saints » Respect not those who practice
Happy the man who set Jehovah his trust, and turned not to the arrogant, and those turning aside to falsehood.
Lying » The wicked » Seek after
Sons of man, how long mine honor for shame? Ye will love emptiness, ye. will seek falsehood. Silence.
Lying » The devil, the father of
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.
Lying » Exemplified » Job's friends
And on the contrary, ye devise falsehood; physicians all of you for nothing.
Satan » Vanquished promises of ultimate triumph » Lying
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.
Satan's » Work » Lying
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.
Serpent » Power of » Lying
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.
Servants » Characteristics of wicked servants: » Lying
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 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.
Tempter » Power of » Lying
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.
satan's Work » Lying
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.
Topics on Lying
God Hates Lying
Proverbs 12:22Lips of falsehood an abomination of Jehovah: and they doing faithfulness his delight
God Hating Lying
Proverbs 12:22Lips of falsehood an abomination of Jehovah: and they doing faithfulness his delight
Lying And Deceit
Psalm 120:2O Jehovah, deliver my soul from lips of falsehood, from a tongue of deceit.
Lying Down To Rest
Psalm 4:8In peace together shall I lie down, and I shall sleep: for thou Jehovah alone wilt cause me to dwell confidently.
Lying Wonders
2 Thessalonians 2:9Whose arrival is according to the energy of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
Not Lying
Revelation 14:5And guile was not found in their mouth: for they are blameless before the throne of God.