Bible Verses About Falsehood

A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth,

Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,

These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul.

Eyes high--tongues false--And hands shedding innocent blood--

A heart devising thoughts of vanity--Feet hasting to run to evil--

A false witness who doth breathe out lies--And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

Whoso is walking in integrity walketh confidently, And whoso is perverting his ways is known.

Whoso is winking the eye giveth grief, And a talkative fool kicketh.

The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment--a tongue of falsehood.

Deceit is in the heart of those devising evil, And to those counselling peace is joy.

As one pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death,

So hath a man deceived his neighbour, And hath said, `Am not I playing?'

By his lips doth a hater dissemble, And in his heart he placeth deceit,

When his voice is gracious trust not in him, For seven abominations are in his heart.

Hatred is covered by deceit, Revealed is its wickedness in an assembly.

For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.

There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.

For our transgressions have been multiplied before Thee, And our sins have testified against us, For our transgressions are with us, And our iniquities--we have known them.

Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostasy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.

And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.

thy dwelling is in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

`Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife is to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land,

Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery--have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.

`Then shall they answer, they also, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or infirm, or in prison, and we did not minister to thee?

`Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of these, the least, ye did it not to me.