Proverbs 12:22
85 helpful votesLying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.
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Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.
A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will perish.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,
But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who tells lies shall stand in my presence.
A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.
An honest witness does not deceive, but a dishonest witness pours forth lies.
A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.
If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil, a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
A wicked man listens to evil lips; a liar gives ear to a destructive tongue.
You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.
Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.
You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
The desire of a man is loving devotion; better to be poor than a liar.
“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked bring shame and disgrace.
Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
May lying lips be silenced—lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.
Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?
Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices, and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
As you can see, a man is justified by his deeds and not by faith alone.
But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!
The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
Like a club or sword or sharp arrow is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.
If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Consider also that our Lord’s patience brings salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom God gave him. He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
I hate and abhor falsehood, but Your law I love.
They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
A truthful witness saves lives, but one who utters lies is deceitful.
Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.
Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.
influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.
“Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.
Blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, who has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.
I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles.
But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
With his mouth the ungodly man destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous are rescued.
If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.
But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by Him will exult, for the mouths of liars will be shut.
“You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows, so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.
The remnant of Israel will no longer do wrong or speak lies, nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths. But they will feed and lie down, with no one to make them tremble.”
You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to My people who would listen, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not have lived.
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth.
for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching
So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son. But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”
And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.
Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates. But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers, for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching
Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”
Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? You see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did. And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God. As you can see, a man is justified by his deeds and not by faith alone.
For no word from God will ever fail.”
Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.
For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.
which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.
These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.
But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander. These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”
And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder, and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them. For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie, in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.
Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. With his wife’s full knowledge, he kept back some of the proceeds for himself, but brought a portion and laid it at the apostles’ feet. Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land? Did it not belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? How could you conceive such a deed in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God!” On hearing these words, Ananias fell down and died. And great fear came over all who heard what had happened. . . .
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
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