Not telling the truth

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• 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.

• 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:

• 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.

• John 8:32

  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

• Ephesians 4:15

  But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

• Numbers 23:19

  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?

• John 14:6

  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

• Ephesians 4:25

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

• 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.

• Zechariah 8:16

  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:

• Psalms 25:5

  Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

• 1 John 3:18

  My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

• Galatians 4:16

  Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

• John 1:14

  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

• John 4:24

  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

• John 17:17

  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

• 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.

• James 1:18

  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

• John 8:31–32

  Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

• Psalms 86:11

  Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

• Exodus 20:16

  Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

• Psalms 43:3

  O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

• Jeremiah 13:25

  This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

• 1 John 1:8

  If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

• Hebrews 11:1

  Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

• Proverbs 19:5

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

• Hebrews 6:18

  That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

• Proverbs 12:19

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

• 1 John 1:6

  If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

• Psalms 119:160

  Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

• 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.

• Proverbs 28:13

  He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

• Romans 1:18

  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

• James 5:12

  But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

• Psalms 51:6

  Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

• Colossians 3:9

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

• Proverbs 14:5

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

• Psalms 5:6

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

• John 14:17

  Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.