📝 Lie not
This study lists scriptures that show lying is an abomination.
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Exodus 23:1
- Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
If ye love me
Luke 6:46
- And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
John 14:15
- If ye love me, keep my commandments.
1 John 2:4
- He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
- Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
- Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
- Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
- Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
- Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
- That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
- A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
- 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.
- But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
- He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
- A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.
- 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.
- He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
- I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
- These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
- A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
- An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
- A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
- Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
- For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
- If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
- All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
- But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
- And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
- 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.
- Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
- Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
- Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
- Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
- A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
- A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
- But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
- Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
- For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
- 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.
- Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
- Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
- But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.