Bible Verses About Falsehood

"If someone sins and acts perversely against ADONAI by dealing falsely with his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him, by stealing from him, by extorting him,

or by dealing falsely in regard to a lost object he has found, or by swearing to a lie -if a person commits any of these sins,

then, if he sinned and is guilty, he is to restore whatever it was he stole or obtained by extortion, or whatever was deposited with him, or the lost object which he found,

or anything about which he has sworn falsely. He is to restore it in full plus an additional one-fifth; he must return it to the person who owns it, on the day when he presents his guilt offering.

He is to bring as his guilt offering to ADONAI a ram without defect from the flock, or its equivalent according to your appraisal, to the cohen; it is a guilt offering.

Thus the cohen will make atonement for him before ADONAI, and he will be forgiven in regard to whatever it was he did that made him guilty.

"'Do not steal from, defraud or lie to each other.

Do not swear by my name falsely, which would be profaning the name of your God; I am ADONAI.

"If I have gone along with falsehood, if my feet have hurried to deceit;

then let me be weighed on an honest scale, so that God will know my integrity.

They all tell lies to each other, flattering with their lips, but speaking from divided hearts.

May ADONAI cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that speaks so proudly,

you give your mouth free rein for evil and harness your tongue to deceit;

you sit and speak against your kinsman, you slander your own mother's son.

Your tongue, as sharp as a razor, plots destruction and works deception.

You love evil more than good, lies rather than speaking uprightly. (Selah)

You love all words that eat people up, you deceitful tongue!

This is why God will strike you down, seize you, pluck you from your tent and uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

Rescue me, ADONAI, from lips that tell lies, from a tongue full of deceit.

What has he in store for you, deceitful tongue? What more will he do to you?

A warrior's sharp arrows, with red-hot coals from a broom tree.

They will save you from the way of evil and from those who speak deceitfully,

who leave the paths of honesty to walk the ways of darkness,

who delight in doing evil and take joy in being stubbornly deceitful,

from those whose tracks are twisted and whose paths are perverse.