He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He answered, “I am.”
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;
Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,
Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Will you speak falsely for God and speak deceitfully for him? Will you show partiality toward him? Will you plead the case for God?
When Achish asked, “Where have you made a raid today?” David would say, “Against the Negeb of Judah,” or, “Against the Negeb of the Jerahmeelites,” or, “Against the Negeb of the Kenites.”
So he changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands and made marks on the doors of the gate and let his spittle run down his beard.
And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place.
And the king said to her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.
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