Falsehood: General Scriptures Concerning

Scripture references

Exo 20:16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Exo 23:1 “You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a
Lev 6:2–7 “If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his
Lev 19:11, 12, 16 You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another. /
Job 13:4 You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
Job 21:34 So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full
Job 27:4 my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
Job 31:5, 6, 33 If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit, /
Job 36:4 For truly my words are free of falsehood; one perfect in knowledge is with
Psa 5:6, 9 You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed
Psa 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are
Psa 12:2, 3 They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double
Psa 28:3 Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who
Psa 31:18 May lying lips be silenced—lips that speak with arrogance against the
Psa 34:13 Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.
Psa 36:3 The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise
Psa 50:19, 20 You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
Psa 52:2–5 Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of
Psa 55:21, 23 His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words
Psa 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
Psa 59:12 By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be
Psa 62:4 They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in
Psa 63:11 But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by Him will exult, for
Psa 101:5, 7 Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the
Psa 109:2 For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me
Psa 116:11 In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”
Psa 119:29, 69, 163 Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your
Psa 120:2–4 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue. / What
Psa 144:8, 11 whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful. / Set
Pro 2:12–15 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks
Pro 3:3 Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your
Pro 6:12, 13, 17–19 A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
Pro 10:9, 10, 18, 31 He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts
Pro 11:9 With his mouth the ungodly man destroys his neighbor, but through
Pro 12:17, 19, 20, 22 He who speaks the truth declares what is right, but a false
Pro 13:5 The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked bring shame and disgrace.
Pro 14:5, 8, 25 An honest witness does not deceive, but a dishonest witness pours
Pro 17:4, 7 A wicked man listens to evil lips; a liar gives ear to a destructive
Pro 19:5, 9, 22, 28 A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies
Pro 20:17 Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of
Pro 21:6 Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
Pro 26:18, 19, 24–26, 28 Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows, / so
Pro 27:14 If one blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it
Ecc 5:6 Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, and do not tell the
Isa 28:15 For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an
Isa 32:7 The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy
Isa 57:11 Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and failed to remember
Isa 59:3, 4, 12, 13 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with
Isa 63:8 For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.”
Jer 7:8, 28 But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail. / Therefore
Jer 9:3, 5, 6, 8 “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the
Jer 12:6 Even your brothers—your own father’s household—even they have betrayed
Jer 50:36 A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A
Eze 22:9 Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who
Hos 4:1, 2 Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case
Oba 1:7 All the men allied with you will drive you to the border; the men at peace
Mic 6:12 For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak
Nah 3:1 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without
Zep 3:13 The remnant of Israel will no longer do wrong or speak lies, nor will a
Mat 25:44–46 And they too will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty
Joh 8:44, 45 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his
Eph 4:25, 29 Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to
Col 3:9 Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its
1Ti 1:9, 10 We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the
1Ti 4:2 influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a
1Pe 3:10, 16 For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue
Rev 21:8, 27 But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and
Rev 22:15 But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the