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"You shall not bear
false witness against your neighbor." [EX 20:16]
"You shall not steal. You shall not lie or speak falsely
to one another." [LEV 19:11]
Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said to them, "Why did
you lie to us and say that you lived at a great distance from us,
when you will be living in our very midst?" [JOSH 9:22]
Delilah said to Samson again, "Up to now you have mocked
me and told me lies. Tell me how you may be bound." He said
to her, "If you weave my seven locks of hair into the web and
fasten them with the pin, I shall be as weak as any other
man." [JUDG 16:13]
Then he said, "Come home with me and have some bread." "I cannot go back with you, and I cannot eat bread or drink water with you in this place," he answered, "for I was told by the word of the LORD neither to eat bread nor drink water here, and not to go back the way I came." But he said to him, "I, too, am a prophet like you, and an angel told me in the word of the LORD to bring you back with me to my house and to have you eat bread and drink water." He was lying to him, however. So he went back with him, and ate bread and drank water in his house. [1KGS
13:15-19]
He answered, 'I will go forth and become a lying spirit in the
mouths of all his prophets.' The LORD replied, 'You shall succeed
in deceiving him. Go forth and do this.' [1KGS 22:22]
But she retorted, "Stop it, and do not lie to me! My child
has perished!" She would go out and keep watch all day at the
road her son had taken, and she ate nothing. At sunset she would
go back home to wail and cry the whole night through, getting no
sleep at all. Now at the end of the fourteen-day wedding
celebration which Raguel had sworn to hold for his daughter,
Tobiah went to him and said: "Please let me go, for I know
that my father and mother do not believe they will ever see me
again. So I beg you, father, let me go back to my father. I have
already told you how I left him." [TOBIT 10:7]
How long will you people mock my honor, love what is
worthless, chase after lies? [Taken from PS 4:3]
Guide me in your justice because of my foes; make straight your way before me. For there is no sincerity in their mouths; their hearts are corrupt.
Their throats are open graves; on their tongues are subtle lies. Declare them guilty, God; make them fall by their own devices.
Drive them out for their many sins; they have rebelled against you. [PS
5:9-11]
The wicked even boast of their greed; these robbers curse and scorn the LORD. They say in their hearts, "We will never fall; never will we see misfortune." Their mouths are full of oaths, violence, and lies; discord and evil are under their tongues.
[PS 10:3,6-7]
Help, LORD, for no one loyal remains; the faithful have vanished from the human race Those who tell lies to one another speak with deceiving lips and a double heart.
May the LORD cut off all deceiving lips, and every boastful tongue, Those who say, "By our tongues we prevail; when our lips speak, who can lord it over us?"
[PS 12:2-5]
Do not abandon me to the will of my foes; malicious and lying
witnesses have risen against me. [PS 27:12]
But I trust in you, LORD; I say, "You are my God." My times are in your hands; rescue me from my enemies, from the hands of my pursuers. Let your face shine on your servant; save me in your kindness. Do not let me be put to shame, for I have called to you, LORD.
Put the wicked to shame; reduce them to silence in Sheol. Strike dumb their lying lips, proud lips that attack the just in contempt and scorn. [PS
31:15-19]
Keep your tongue from evil, your lips from speaking lies. [PS
34:14]
Do not let lying foes smirk at me, my undeserved enemies wink knowingly. They speak no words of peace, but against the quiet in the land they fashion deceitful speech. [PS
35:19-20]
When people come to visit me, they speak without sincerity. Their hearts store up malice; they leave and spread their vicious lies. My foes all whisper against me; they imagine the worst about
me [Taken from PS 41:7-8]
Why do you glory in evil, you scandalous liar? All day long you plot destruction; your tongue is
like a sharpened razor, you skillful deceiver. You love evil rather than good, lies rather than honest speech. You love any word that destroys, you deceitful tongue.
[Taken from PS 52:3-6]
They strike out at friends and go back on their promises. Softer than butter is their speech, but war is in their hearts.
Smoother than oil are their words, but they are unsheathed swords. Cast your care upon the LORD, who will give you support.
God will never allow the righteous to stumble. But you, God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction.
These bloodthirsty liars will not live half their days, but I put my trust in you. [PS
55:21-24]
The wicked have been corrupt since birth; liars from the
womb, they have gone astray. [PS 58:4]
For the sinful words of their mouths and lips let them be caught in their pride.
For the lies they have told under oath destroy them in anger, destroy till they are no more.
Then people will know God rules over Jacob, yes, even to the ends of the earth.
[Taken from PS 59:13-14]
Even from my place on high they plot to dislodge me. They
delight in lies; they bless with their mouths, but inwardly they
curse. [Taken from PS 62:5]
But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swear by the Lord
shall exult, for the mouths of liars will be shut! [PS 63:12]
O God, whom I praise, do not be silent, for wicked and treacherous mouths attack me.
They speak against me with lying tongues; with hateful words they surround me, attacking me without cause. In return for my love they slander me, even though I prayed for them. They repay me evil for good,
hatred for my love. My enemies say of me: "Find a lying witness, an accuser to stand by his right hand, That he may be judged and found guilty, that his plea may be in
vain." [PS 109:2-7]
The arrogant smear me with lies, but I observe your precepts
with all my heart. [PS 119:69]
LORD, deliver me from lying lips, from treacherous tongues. [PS
120:2]
Reach out your hand from on high; deliver me from the many waters; rescue me from the hands of foreign foes. Their mouths speak untruth; their right hands are raised in lying oaths. [PS
144:7-8]
There are six things the LORD hates, yes, seven are an abomination to him; Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood; A heart that plots wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil, The false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
[PROV 6:16-19]
It is the lips of the liar that conceal hostility; but he who
spreads accusations is a fool. [PROV 10:18]
He tells the truth who states what he is sure of, but a lying
witness speaks deceitfully. [PROV 12:17]
Truthful lips endure forever, the lying tongue, for only a
moment. [PROV 12:19]
Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who are
truthful are his delight. [PROV 12:22]
A truthful witness does not lie, but a false witness utters
lies. [PROV 14:5]
The truthful witness saves lives, but he who utters lies is a
betrayer. [PROV 14:25]
Fine words are out of place in a fool; how much more, lying
words in a noble! [PROV 17:7]
The false witness will not go unpunished, and he who utters
lies will not escape. [PROV 19:5]
The false witness will not go unpunished, and he who utters
lies will perish. [PROV 19:9]
From a man's greed comes his shame; rather be a poor man than a
liar. [PROV 19:22]
He who makes a fortune by a lying tongue is chasing a bubble
over deadly snares. [PROV 21:6]
Like a club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow, is the man who bears
false witness against his neighbor. [PROV 25:18]
The lying tongue is its owner's enemy, and the flattering mouth
works ruin. [PROV 26:28]
If a ruler listens to lying words, his servants all become
wicked. [PROV 29:12]
Two things I ask of you, deny them not to me before I die: Put falsehood and lying far from me, give me neither poverty nor riches; (provide me only with the food I need;) Lest, being full, I deny you, saying, "Who is the LORD?"
Or, being in want, I steal, and profane the name of my God. [PROV
30:7-9]
Therefore guard against profitless grumbling, and from calumny
withhold your tongues; For a stealthy utterance does not go
unpunished, and a lying mouth slays the soul. [WISDOM 1:11]
For the worship of infamous idols is the reason and source and extremity of all evil. For they either go mad with enjoyment, or prophesy lies, or live lawlessly or lightly forswear themselves. For as their trust is in soulless idols, they expect no harm when they have sworn falsely. But on both counts shall justice overtake them: because they thought ill of God and devoted themselves to idols, and because they deliberately swore false oaths, despising piety.
[WISDOM 14:27-30]
Delight not in telling lie after lie, for it never results in
good. [SIRACH 7:13]
[Wisdom:] Far from the impious is she, not to be spoken of by liars.
[Taken from SIRACH 15:8]
The eyes of God see all he has made; he understands man's every deed. No man does he command to sin, to none does he give strength for lies.
[SIRACH 15:19-20]
A lie is a foul blot in a man, yet it is constantly on the lips of the unruly. Better a thief than an inveterate liar, yet both will suffer disgrace; A liar's way leads to dishonor, his shame remains ever with him.
[SIRACH 20:23-25]
There are three things at which my heart quakes, a fourth before which I quail:
Though false charges in public, trial before all the people, and lying testimony are harder to bear than death, A jealous wife is heartache and mourning and a scourging tongue like the other three.
[SIRACH 26:5-6]
Can the unclean produce the clean? can the liar ever speak the
truth? [SIRACH 34:4]
You have saved me from death, and kept back my body from the
pit, From the clutches of the nether world you have snatched my
feet; you have delivered me, in your great mercy From the scourge
of a slanderous tongue, and from lips that went over to falsehood;
From the snare of those who watched for my downfall, and from the
power of those who sought my life; From many a danger you have
saved me, from flames that hemmed me in on every side; From the
midst of unremitting fire, From the deep belly of the nether
world; From deceiving lips and painters of lies, from the arrows
of dishonest tongues. [Taken from SIRACH 51:2-6]
Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, you arrogant, who rule
this people in Jerusalem: Because you say, "We have made a
covenant with death, and with the nether world we have made a
pact; When the overwhelming scourge passes, it will not reach us;
For we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have found a
hiding place," - Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: See, I am
laying a stone in Zion, a stone that has been tested, A precious
cornerstone as a sure foundation; he who puts his faith in it
shall not be shaken. I will make of right a measuring line, of
justice a level. - Hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and
waters shall flood the hiding place. Your covenant with death
shall be canceled and your pact with the nether world shall not
stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes, you shall be trampled
down by it. [ISA 28:14-18]
And the trickster uses wicked trickery, planning crimes: How to ruin the poor with lies, and the needy when they plead their case. But the noble man plans noble things, and by noble things he stands.
[ISA 32:7-8]
Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, who formed you from the womb:
I am the LORD, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens; when I spread out the earth, who was with me? It is I who bring to nought the omens of liars, who make fools of diviners;
I turn wise men back and make their knowledge foolish. [ISA 44:24-25]
Lo, the hand of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear
too dull to hear. Rather, it is your crimes that separate you from
your God, It is your sins that make him hide his face so that he
will not hear you. For your hands are stained with blood, your
fingers with guilt; Your lips speak falsehood, and your tongue
utters deceit. No one brings suit justly, no one pleads
truthfully; They trust in emptiness and tell lies; they conceive
mischief and bring forth malice. [ISA 59:1-4]
Why do these people rebel with obstinate resistance? Why do
they cling to deceptive idols, refuse to turn back? I listen
closely: they speak what is not true; No one repents of his
wickedness, saying, "What have I done!" Everyone keeps
on running his course, like a steed dashing into battle. Even the
stork in the air knows it seasons; Turtledove, swallow and thrush
observe their time of return, But my people do not know the
ordinance of the LORD. How can you say, "We are wise, we have
the law of the LORD"? Why, that has been changed into
falsehood by the lying pen of the scribes! The wise are
confounded, dismayed and ensnared; Since they have rejected the
word of the LORD, of what avail is their wisdom? [JER 8:5-9]
Would that I had in the desert a travelers' lodge! That I might
leave my people and depart from them. They are all adulterers, a
faithless band. They ready their tongues like a drawn bow; with
lying, and not with truth, they hold forth in the land. They go
from evil to evil, but me they know not, says the LORD. Be on your
guard, everyone against his neighbor; put no trust in any brother.
Every brother apes Jacob, the supplanter, every friend is guilty
of slander. Each one deceives the other, no one speaks the truth.
They have accustomed their tongues to lying, and are perverse, and
cannot repent. Violence upon violence, deceit upon deceit: They
refuse to recognize me, says the LORD. Therefore, thus says the
LORD of hosts: I will smelt them and test them; how else should I
deal with their wickedness? A murderous arrow is his tongue, his
mouth utters deceit; He speaks cordially with his friends, but in
his heart he lays an ambush! For these things, says the LORD,
shall I not punish them? On a nation such as this shall I not take
vengeance? [JER 9:1-8]
This is your lot, the portion measured out to you from me, says the LORD.
Because you have forgotten me, and trusted in the lying idol, I now will strip off your skirts from you, so that your shame will appear.
[JER 13:25-26]
Ah! Lord GOD, I replied, it is the prophets who say to them,
"You shall not see the sword; famine shall not befall you. Indeed, I will give you lasting peace in this place." Lies these prophets utter in my name, the LORD said to me. I did not send them; I gave them no command nor did I speak to them. Lying visions, foolish divination, dreams of their own imagination, they prophesy to you. Therefore, thus says the LORD: Concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, though I did not send them; who say, "Sword and famine shall not befall this land": by the sword and famine shall these prophets meet their end.
[JER 14:13-15]
You Pashhur, and all the members of your household shall go
into exile. To Babylon you shall go, you and all your friends;
there you shall die and be buried, because you have prophesied
lies to them. [JER 20:6]
But among Jerusalem's prophets I saw deeds still more shocking:
Adultery, living in lies, siding with the wicked, so that no one
turns from evil; To me they are all like Sodom, its citizens like
Gomorrah. [JER 23:14]
I have heard the prophets who prophesy lies in my name say,
"I had a dream! I had a dream!" How long will this
continue? Is my name in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy
lies and their own deceitful fancies? By their dreams which they
recount to each other, they think to make my people forget my
name, just as their fathers forgot my name for Baal. Let the
prophet who has a dream recount his dream; let him who has my word
speak my word truthfully! What has straw to do with the wheat?
says the LORD. Is not my word like fire, says the LORD, like a
hammer shattering rocks? Therefore I am against the prophets, says
the LORD, who steal my words from each other. Yes, I am against
the prophets, says the LORD, who borrow speeches to pronounce
oracles. Yes, I am against the prophets who prophesy lying dreams,
says the LORD, and who lead my people astray by recounting their
lies and by their empty boasting. From me they have no mission or
command, and they do this people no good at all, says the LORD.
[JER 23:25-32]
You, however, must not listen to your prophets, to your diviners and dreamers, to your soothsayers and sorcerers, who say to you, "You need not serve the king of Babylon." For they prophesy lies to you, in order to drive you far from your land, to make me banish you so that you will perish. [JER
27:9-10]
To the priests and to all the people I spoke as follows: Thus says the LORD: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you: "The vessels of the house of the LORD will be brought back from Babylon soon now," for they prophesy lies to you. Do not listen to them! Serve the king of Babylon that you may live; else this city will become a heap of ruins. If they were prophets, if the word of the LORD were with them, they would intercede with the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which remain in the house of the LORD and in the palace of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem might not be taken to Babylon.
[JER 27:16-18]
This is what the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, has to say about those who prophesy lies to you in my name, Ahab, son of Kolaiah, and Zedekiah, son of Maaseiah: I am handing them over to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who will slay them before your eyes. For they are criminals in Israel, committing adultery with their neighbors' wives, and alleging in my name things I did not command. I know, I am witness, says the LORD.
[JER 29:21,23]
Jeremiah set out from Jerusalem for the district of Benjamin, to take part with his family in the division of an inheritance. But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, he met the captain of the guard, a man named Irijah, son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah; he seized the prophet Jeremiah, saying, "You are deserting to the Chaldeans!"
"That is a lie!" Jeremiah answered, "I am not deserting to the Chaldeans." Without listening, Irijah kept Jeremiah in custody and brought him to the princes.
[JER 37:12-14]
Now Johanan, son of Kareah, and all the leaders of the armies
in the field came to Gedaliah in Mizpah and asked him whether he
did not know that Baalis, the king of the Ammonites, had sent
Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, to assassinate him. But Gedaliah, son
of Ahikam, would not believe them. Then Johanan, son of Kareah,
said secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah: "Let me go and kill
Ishmael, son of Nethaniah; no one will know it. Why should he be
allowed to kill you? All the Jews who have now rallied to you will
be dispersed and the remnant of Judah will perish."
Nevertheless, Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, answered Johanan, son of
Kareah, "You shall do nothing of the kind; you have lied
about Ishmael." [JER 40:13-16]
When Jeremiah finished speaking to the people all these words of the LORD, their God, with which the LORD had sent him to them,
Azariah, son of Hoshaiah, Johanan, son of Kareah, and all the insolent men shouted to Jeremiah: "You lie; it was not the LORD, our God, who sent you to tell us not to go to Egypt to settle."
[JER 43:1-2]
We have heard of the pride of Moab, pride beyond bounds: His loftiness, his pride, his scorn, his insolence of heart. I know, says the LORD, his arrogance; liar in boast, liar in deed. And so I wail over Moab, over all Moab I cry, over the men of Kir-heres I moan.
[JER 48:29-31]
Thus the word of the LORD came to me: Son of man, prophesy
against the prophets of Israel, prophesy! Say to those who
prophesy their own thought: Hear the word of the LORD: You did not
step into the breach, nor did you build a wall about the house of
Israel that would stand firm against attack on the day of the
LORD. Was not the vision you saw false, and your divination lying?
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have spoken
falsehood and have seen lying visions, therefore see! I am coming
at you, says the Lord GOD. For the very reason that they led my
people astray, saying, "Peace!" when there was no peace,
and that, as one built a wall, they would cover it with whitewash,
say then to the whitewashers: I will bring down a flooding rain;
hailstones shall fall, and a storm wind shall break out.
[EZEK 13:1-2,5,7-8,10-11]
But I will stretch out my hand against the prophets who have
false visions and who foretell lies. They shall not belong to the
community of my people, nor be recorded in the register of the
house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel; thus you shall know
that I am the LORD. [EZEK 13:9]
You dishonor me before my people with handfuls of barley and
crumbs of bread, killing those who should not die and keeping
alive those who should not live, lying to my people who willingly
hear lies. [EZEK 13:19]
Because you have disheartened the upright man with lies when I did not wish him grieved, and have encouraged the wicked man not to turn from his evil conduct and save his life; therefore you shall no longer see false visions and practice divination, but I will rescue my people from your power. Thus you shall know that I am the LORD.
[EZEK 13:22-23]
In his right hand is the divining arrow marked "Jerusalem," bidding him to give the order for slaying, to raise his voice in the battle cry, to post battering rams at the gates, to cast up a ramp, to build a siege tower. In their eyes this is but a lying oracle; yet they are bound by the oaths they have sworn, and the arrow taken in hand marks their guilt. Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have drawn attention to your guilt, with your crimes laid bare and your sinfulness in all your wicked deeds revealed (because attention has been drawn to you), you shall be taken in hand. [EZEK
21:27-29]
As for you, son of man, prophesy: Thus says the Lord GOD against the Ammonites and their insults: A sword, a sword is drawn for slaughter, burnished to consume and to flash lightning, because you planned with false visions and lying divinations to lay it on the necks of depraved and wicked men whose day has come when their crimes are at an end. [EZEK
21:33-34]
Her prophets cover them with whitewash, pretending to visions that are false and performing lying divinations, saying, "Thus says the Lord GOD," although the LORD has not spoken. The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they afflict the poor and the needy, and oppress the resident alien without justice. Thus I have searched among them for someone who could build a wall or stand in the breach before me to keep me from destroying the land; but I found no one. Therefore I have poured out my fury upon them; with my fiery wrath I have consumed them; I have brought down their conduct upon their heads, says the Lord GOD. [EZEK
22:28-31]
My people come to you as people always do; they sit down before
you and hear your words, but they will not obey them, for lies are
on their lips and their desires are fixed on dishonest gain. [EZEK
33:31]
The two kings, resolved on evil, shall sit at table together
and exchange lies, but they shall have no success, because the
appointed end is not yet. [DAN 11:27]
"Now, then, if you were a witness, tell me under what tree you saw them together." "Under a mastic tree," he answered. "Your fine lie has cost you your head," said Daniel; "for the angel of God shall receive the sentence from him and split you in two." [DAN
13:54-55]
There were seventy priests of Bel, besides their wives and children. When the king went with Daniel into the temple of Bel, the priests of Bel said, "See, we are going to leave. Do you, O king, set out the food and prepare the wine; then shut the door and seal it with your ring. If you do not find that Bel has eaten it all when you return in the morning, we are to die; otherwise Daniel shall die for his lies against us." They were not perturbed, because under the table they had made a secret entrance through which they always came in to consume the food. [DAN
14:10-13]
Hear the word of the LORD, O people of Israel, for the LORD has a grievance against the inhabitants of the land:
There is no fidelity, no mercy, no knowledge of God in the land. False swearing, lying, murder, stealing and adultery! in their lawlessness, bloodshed follows bloodshed. Therefore the land mourns, and everything that dwells in it languishes
[Taken from HOSEA 4:1-3]
Woe to them, they have strayed from me! Ruin to them, they have
sinned against me! Though I wished to redeem them, they spoke lies
against me. [HOSEA 7:13]
Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, the house of Israel, with
deceit; Judah is still rebellious against God, against the Holy
One, who is faithful. Ephraim chases the wind, ever pursuing the gale. His lies and
falsehoods are many: he comes to terms with Assyria, and carries
oil to Egypt. [HOSEA 12:1-2]
Thus says the LORD: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I
will not revoke my word; Because they spurned the law of the LORD,
and did not keep his statutes; Because the lies which their
fathers followed have led them astray, I will send fire upon
Judah, to devour the castles of Jerusalem. [AMOS 2:4-5]
Woe to the bloody city, all lies, full of plunder, whose
looting never stops! [NAHUM 3:1]
Of what avail is the carved image, that its maker should carve
it? Or the molten image and lying oracle, that its very maker
should trust in it, and make dumb idols? [HAB 2:18]
But I will leave as a remnant in your midst a people humble and lowly,
Who shall take refuge in the name of the LORD; the remnant of Israel.
They shall do no wrong and speak no lies; Nor shall there be found in their mouths a deceitful tongue;
They shall pasture and couch their flocks with none to disturb them.
[ZEPH 3:12-13]
[Jesus said,] "Do you not realize that everything that enters the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled into the latrine? But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile. For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, false witness, blasphemy. These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile."
[Taken from MT 15:17-20]
Now someone approached him and said, "Teacher, what good
must I do to gain eternal life?" He answered him, "Why
do you ask me about the good? There is only One who is good. If
you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments." He asked
him, "Which ones?" And Jesus replied, " 'You shall
not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you
shall not bear false witness; honor your father and your mother';
and 'you shall love your neighbor as yourself.'" The young
man said to him, "All of these I have observed. What do I
still lack?" Jesus said to him, "If you wish to be
perfect, go, sell what you have and give to (the) poor, and you
will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." [MT
19:16-21]
Those who had arrested Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. Peter was following him at a distance as far as the high priest's courtyard, and going inside he sat down with the servants to see the outcome. The chief priests and the entire Sanhedrin
kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus in order to put him to death, but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two
came forward who stated, "This man said, 'I can destroy the temple of God and within three days rebuild it.'"
[MT 26:57-61]
As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before him, and asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus answered him, "Why do you call me good?
No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: 'You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; you shall not defraud; honor your father and your mother.'" He replied and said to him, "Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth." Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him, "You are lacking in one thing. Go, sell what you have, and give to (the) poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me."
[MK 10:17-21]
They led Jesus away to the high priest, and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes came together. Peter followed him at a distance into the high priest's courtyard and was seated with the guards, warming himself at the fire. The chief priests and the entire Sanhedrin kept trying to obtain testimony against Jesus in order to put him to death, but they found none. Many gave false witness against him, but their testimony did not agree. Some took the stand and testified falsely against him, alleging, "We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple made with hands and within three days I will build another not made with hands.'" Even so their testimony did not agree.
[MK 14:53-59]
An official asked him this question, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus answered him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments, 'You shall not commit adultery; you shall not kill; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; honor your father and your mother.'" And he replied, "All of these I have observed from my youth." When Jesus heard this he said to him, "There is still one thing left for you: sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have a treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
[LK 18:18-22]
Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would
love me, for I came from God and am here; I did not come on my
own, but he sent me. Why do you not understand what I am saying?
Because you cannot bear to hear my word. You belong to your father
the devil and you willingly carry out your father's desires. He
was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks
in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies. But
because I speak the truth, you do not believe me. [JN 8:42-45]
(So) the Jews said to him, "Now we are sure that you are
possessed. Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say,
'Whoever keeps my word will never taste death.' Are you greater
than our father Abraham, who died? Or the prophets, who died? Who
do you make yourself out to be?" Jesus answered, "If I
glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing; but it is my Father who
glorifies me, of whom you say, 'He is our God.' You do not know
him, but I know him. And if I should say that I do not know him, I
would be like you a liar. But I do know him and I keep his word.
Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was
glad. So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years
old and you have seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them,
"Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I
AM." [JN 8:52-58]
A man named Ananias, however, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property. He retained for himself, with his wife's knowledge, some of the purchase price, took the remainder, and put it at the feet of the apostles. But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart so that you lied to the
Holy Spirit and retained part of the price of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain yours? And when it was sold, was it not still under your control? Why did you contrive this deed? You have lied not to human beings, but to God."
When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last, and great fear came upon all who heard of it.
[ACTS 5:1-5]
Now Stephen, filled with grace and power, was working great
wonders and signs among the people. Certain members of the
so-called Synagogue of Freedmen, Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and
people from Cilicia and Asia, came forward and debated with
Stephen, but they could not withstand the wisdom and the spirit
with which he spoke. Then they instigated some men to say,
"We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses
and God." They stirred up the people, the elders, and the
scribes, accosted him, seized him, and brought him before the
Sanhedrin. They presented false witnesses who testified,
"This man never stops saying things against (this) holy place
and the law. For we have heard him claim that this Jesus the
Nazorean will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses
handed down to us." All those who sat in the Sanhedrin looked
intently at him and saw that his face was like the face of an
angel. [ACTS 6:8-15]
While claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes. Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts
for the mutual degradation of their bodies. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. [ROM
1:22-25]
What advantage is there then in being a Jew? Or what is the
value of circumcision? Much, in every respect. (For) in the first
place, they were entrusted with the utterances of God. What if
some were unfaithful? Will their infidelity nullify the fidelity
of God? Of course not! God must be true, though every human being
is a liar, as it is written: "That you may be justified in
your words, and conquer when you are judged." But if our
wickedness provides proof of God's righteousness, what can we say?
Is God unjust, humanly speaking, to inflict his wrath? Of course
not! For how else is God to judge the world? But if God's truth
redounds to his glory through my falsehood, why am I still being
condemned as a sinner? And why not say - as we are accused and as
some claim we say - that we should do evil that good may come of
it? Their penalty is what they deserve. [ROM 3:1-8]
I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie; my conscience joins with the
Holy Spirit in bearing me witness that I have great sorrow and constant anguish in my heart.
[ROM 9:1-2]
But if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some
among you say there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no
resurrection of the dead, then neither has Christ been raised. And
if Christ has not been raised, then empty (too) is our preaching;
empty, too, your faith. Then we are also false witnesses to God,
because we testified against God that he raised Christ, whom he
did not raise if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead
are not raised, neither has Christ been raised, and if Christ has
not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If for
this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are the most pitiable
people of all. But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the
firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. [1COR 15:12-20]
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows, he who is blessed
forever, that I do not lie. [2COR 11:31]
Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that is
idolatry. Because of these the wrath of God is coming (upon the disobedient). By these you too once conducted yourselves, when you lived in that way. But now you must put them all away:
anger, fury, malice, slander, and obscene language out of your mouths. Stop lying to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed, for knowledge, in the image of its creator.
[COL 3:5-10]
We ask you, brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ and our assembling with him, not to be shaken out of
your minds suddenly, or to be alarmed either by a
"spirit," or by an oral statement, or by a letter
allegedly from us to the effect that the day of the Lord is at
hand. Let no one deceive you in any way. For unless the apostasy
comes first and the lawless one is revealed, the one doomed to
perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called
god and object of worship, so as to seat himself in the temple of
God, claiming that he is a god - do you not recall that while I
was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what
is restraining, that he may be revealed in his time. For the
mystery of lawlessness is already at work. But the one who
restrains is to do so only for the present, until he is removed
from the scene. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom
the Lord (Jesus) will kill with the breath of his mouth and render
powerless by the manifestation of his coming, the one whose coming
springs from the power of Satan in every mighty deed and in signs
and wonders that lie, and in every wicked deceit for those who are
perishing because they have not accepted the love of truth so that
they may be saved. Therefore, God is sending them a deceiving
power so that they may believe the lie, that all who have not
believed the truth but have approved wrongdoing may be condemned. [2THES
2:1-12]
Some people have deviated from these and turned to meaningless
talk, wanting to be teachers of the law, but without understanding
either what they are saying or what they assert with such
assurance. We know that the law is good, provided that one uses it
as law, with the understanding that law is meant not for a
righteous person but for the lawless and unruly, the godless and
sinful, the unholy and profane, those who kill their fathers or
mothers, murderers, the unchaste, practicing homosexuals,
kidnapers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is opposed to sound
teaching, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God,
with which I have been entrusted. [1TM 1:6-11]
Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the last times some will turn away
from the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and demonic instructions through the hypocrisy of liars with branded consciences. [1TM
4:1-2]
Paul, a slave of God and apostle of Jesus Christ for the sake of the faith of God's chosen ones and the recognition of religious truth, in the hope of eternal life that God, who does not lie, promised before time began, who indeed at the proper time revealed his word in the proclamation with which I was entrusted by the command of God our savior, to Titus, my true child in our common faith: grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our savior. [TI
1:1-4]
For there are also many rebels, idle talkers and deceivers...
It is imperative to silence them, as they are upsetting whole
families by teaching for sordid gain what they should not. One of
them, a prophet of their own, once said, "Cretans have always
been liars, vicious beasts, and lazy gluttons." That
testimony is true. Therefore, admonish them sharply, so that they
may be sound in the faith, instead of paying attention to Jewish
myths and regulations of people who have repudiated the truth. [Taken
from TI 1:10-14]
When God made the promise to Abraham, since he had no one
greater by whom to swear, "he swore by himself," and
said, "I will indeed bless you and multiply" you. And
so, after patient waiting, he obtained the promise. Human beings
swear by someone greater than themselves; for them an oath serves
as a guarantee and puts an end to all argument. So when God wanted
to give the heirs of his promise an even clearer demonstration of
the immutability of his purpose, he intervened with an oath, so
that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God
to lie, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to
hold fast to the hope that lies before us. This we have as an
anchor of the soul, sure and firm, which reaches into the interior
behind the veil, where Jesus has entered on our behalf as
forerunner, becoming high priest forever according to the order of
Melchizedek. [HEB 6:13-20]
Now this is the message that we have heard from him and
proclaim to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at
all. If we say, "We have fellowship with him," while we
continue to walk in darkness, we lie and do not act in truth. But
if we walk in the light as he is in the light, then we have
fellowship with one another, and the blood of his Son Jesus
cleanses us from all sin. If we say, "We are without
sin," we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we
acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our
sins and cleanse us from every wrongdoing. If we say, "We
have not sinned," we make him a liar, and his word is not in
us. [1JN 1:5-10]
The way we may be sure that we know him is to keep his commandments. Whoever says, "I know him," but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps his word, the love of God is truly perfected in him. This is the way we may know that we are in union with him: whoever claims to abide in him ought to live (just) as he lived. [1JN
2:3-6]
Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that the
antichrist was coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. Thus
we know this is the last hour. They went out from us, but they
were not really of our number; if they had been, they would have
remained with us. Their desertion shows that none of them was of
our number. But you have the anointing that comes from the holy
one, and you all have knowledge. I write to you not because you do
not know the truth but because you do, and because every lie is
alien to the truth. Who is the liar? Whoever denies that Jesus is
the Christ. Whoever denies the Father and the Son, this is the
antichrist. No one who denies the Son has the Father, but whoever
confesses the Son has the Father as well.
[1JN 2:18-23]
If anyone says, "I love God," but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. This is the commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. [1JN
4:20-21]
If we accept human testimony, the testimony of God is surely
greater. Now the testimony of God is this, that he has testified
on behalf of his Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God has this
testimony within himself. Whoever does not believe God has made
him a liar by not believing the testimony God has given about his
Son. And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this
life is in his Son. Whoever possesses the Son has life; whoever
does not possess the Son of God does not have life. [1JN 5:9-12]
Behold, I will make those of the assembly of Satan who claim to
be Jews and are not, but are lying, behold I will make them come
and fall prostrate at your feet, and they will realize that I love
you. [RV 3:9]
He took me in spirit to a great, high mountain and showed me
the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God. It
gleamed with the splendor of God. Its radiance was like that of a
precious stone, like jasper, clear as crystal. It had a massive,
high wall, with twelve gates where twelve angels were stationed
and on which names were inscribed, (the names) of the twelve
tribes of the Israelites. There were three gates facing east,
three north, three south, and three west. The wall of the city had
twelve courses of stones as its foundation, on which were
inscribed the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. I
saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God almighty
and the Lamb. The city had no need of sun or moon to shine on it,
for the glory of God gave it light, and its lamp was the Lamb. The
nations will walk by its light, and to it the kings of the earth
will bring their treasure. During the day its gates will never be
shut, and there will be no night there. The treasure and wealth of
the nations will be brought there, but nothing unclean will enter
it, nor any (one) who does abominable things or tells lies. Only
those will enter whose names are written in the Lamb's book of
life. [RV 21:10-14,22-27]
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false
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wrongdoing
/ sin [S18a]
truth
[T14]
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