Bible Verses About Falsehood
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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.
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
Every verse, in Bible order
Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
12To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
13Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
14Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
15Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
12A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
13He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
16These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
9He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
10He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
19The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
20Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.