Bible Verses About Lying
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Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
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The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
2But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
1Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
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 and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,