📝 From lie to truth
This study lists scriptures that show how to go from a lie to truth.
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🎓 Instruction
Micah 6:8
- He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Step 1 Admit the lie
1 Thessalonians 5:21
- Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
1 John 4:1
- Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Timothy 2:15
- Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Step 2 Understand the reasons for the lie
Matthew 10:16
- Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
James 3:2
- For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
1 Corinthians 9:27
- But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Step 3 Repent
Proverbs 12:17
- He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
2 Timothy 3:13
- But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Luke 17:3-4
- Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
- And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
Step 4 Show the fruit of repentance
Provide the Truth
Ephesians 5:6-7
- Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
- Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
Proverbs 24:11-12
- If thou forbear to deliver [them that are] drawn unto death, and [those that are] ready to be slain;
- If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider [it]? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth [not] he know [it]? and shall [not] he render to [every] man according to his works?
Colossians 3:9
- Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Ephesians 4:25
- Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Matthew 23:15
- Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Make restoration
Leviticus 6:2-5
- If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
- Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
- Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
- Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
Ezekiel 33:14-16
- Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
- If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
- None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
Sin no more
John 14:15
- If ye love me, keep my commandments.
John 5:14
- Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
Romans 6:1-2
- What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
- God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Luke 9:23
- And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
1 John 2:16
- For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Romans 13:9
- For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Galatians 5:14
- For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
John 8:32
- And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Isaiah 34:16
- Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: …
Matthew 22:31
- …, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, …,
Warning
John 8:42-45
- Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
- Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
- 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.
- And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
3 John 1:11
- Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
Do
Zechariah 8:16-17
- These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
- And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
James 3:14
- But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.