Falsehood: General Scriptures Concerning

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.

“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor …

You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.

You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.

You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.

So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”

…my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,

…let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.

…if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

For truly my words are free of falsehood; one perfect in knowledge is with you.

You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.

For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.

May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.

Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.

May lying lips be silenced—lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.

The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.

You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.

You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. …

His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.

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.

The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.

By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.

They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah

But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by Him will exult, for the mouths of liars will be shut.

Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.

No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who tells lies shall stand in my presence.

For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”

Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.

Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.

I hate and abhor falsehood, but Your law I love.

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue. …

…whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

…to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity, …

Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,

…winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers.

…haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, …

He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

He who winks the eye causes grief, and foolish lips will come to ruin.

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be cut out.

With his mouth the ungodly man destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous are rescued.

He who speaks the truth declares what is right, but a false witness speaks deceit.

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.

Deceit is in the hearts of those who devise evil, but the counselors of peace have joy.

Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.

The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked bring shame and disgrace.

An honest witness does not deceive, but a dishonest witness pours forth lies.

The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools deceives them.

A truthful witness saves lives, but one who utters lies is deceitful.

A wicked man listens to evil lips; a liar gives ear to a destructive tongue.

Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!

A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies will not escape.

A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will perish.

The desire of a man is loving devotion; better to be poor than a liar.

A corrupt witness mocks justice, and a wicked mouth swallows iniquity.

Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.

Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.

Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows,

…so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”

A hateful man disguises himself with his speech, but he lays up deceit in his heart. …

A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.

If one blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted to him as a curse.

Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, and do not tell the messenger that your vow was a mistake. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands?

For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.

Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and failed to remember Me or take this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear Me?

For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.

No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:

…rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.

For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.

But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.

“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.

Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.

You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.

Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.

Even your brothers—your own father’s household—even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.

A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.

Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.

Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!

Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

All the men allied with you will drive you to the border; the men at peace with you will deceive and overpower you. Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you without your awareness of it.

For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.

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.”

And they too will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’ …

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.

But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.

Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.

Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,

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

…influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.

…keeping a clear conscience, so that those who slander you may be put to shame by your good behavior in Christ.

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.”

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.

But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.