Bible Verses about
Lying
Excellent speech becometh not a fool: Much less do lying lips a prince.
A froward man soweth strife: And a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Deliver my soul, O LORD , from lying lips, And from a deceitful tongue.
For He that will love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good; Let him seek peace, and ensue it.
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.
God is not a man, that he should lie; Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you , and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man , which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Remove far from me vanity and lies: Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with food convenient for me:
Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile.
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? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Lying lips are abomination to the LORD : But they that deal truly are his delight.
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, And he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
A talebearer revealeth secrets: But he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: But perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the froward mouth, do I hate.
Put away from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee.
He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: But he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: all these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.