Dealing with a liar

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• Proverbs 19:9

  A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

• Proverbs 6:16–19

  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, …

• Proverbs 12:22

  Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

• Matthew 12:36–37

  But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

• Exodus 20:16

  Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

• Psalms 101:7

  He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

• John 8:44

  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.

• Proverbs 19:5

  A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

• Proverbs 26:28

  A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

• Colossians 3:9

  Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

• Proverbs 12:19

  The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

• 1 John 4:20

  If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

• Proverbs 14:5

  A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

• Revelation 21:8

  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.

• 1 John 1:9

  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

• 1 John 3:17

  But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

• Psalms 120:2

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

• Proverbs 17:4

  A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

• Psalms 5:6

  Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

• Luke 17:3

  Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

• Proverbs 21:6

  The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

• Leviticus 19:11

  Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

• Exodus 23:1

  Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

• Proverbs 19:22

  The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

• Proverbs 10:18

  He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

• Galatians 5:19–23

  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. …

• Ephesians 4:25

  Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

• Proverbs 13:5

  A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

• James 2:24

  Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

• Psalms 58:3

  The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

• Psalms 31:18

  Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

• Proverbs 24:28

  Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

• Colossians 3:9–10

  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:

• Acts 5:3

  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?

• Psalms 55:23

  But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

• Proverbs 17:7

  Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

• Proverbs 25:18

  A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

• 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.

• 1 John 2:22

  Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

• Proverbs 11:1

  A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.