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100 Bible Verses about Dealing With A Liar

Proverbs 19:9 ESV / 114 helpful votes

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.

Proverbs 12:22 ESV / 103 helpful votes

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 101 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Matthew 12:36-37 ESV / 99 helpful votes

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Exodus 20:16 ESV / 97 helpful votes

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Psalm 101:7 ESV / 88 helpful votes

No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes.

John 8:44 ESV / 85 helpful votes

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Colossians 3:9 ESV / 83 helpful votes

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices

Proverbs 19:5 ESV / 76 helpful votes

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.

Proverbs 26:28 ESV / 75 helpful votes

A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Proverbs 12:19 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

1 John 4:20 ESV / 68 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Proverbs 14:5 ESV / 67 helpful votes

A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 64 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

1 John 3:17 ESV / 61 helpful votes

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

1 John 1:9 ESV / 60 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 17:4 ESV / 53 helpful votes

An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

Psalm 5:6 ESV / 52 helpful votes

You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Luke 17:3 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,

Psalm 120:2 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

Leviticus 19:11 ESV / 51 helpful votes

“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.

Proverbs 21:6 ESV / 49 helpful votes

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.

Exodus 23:1 ESV / 48 helpful votes

“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

Proverbs 19:22 ESV / 46 helpful votes

What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar.

Galatians 5:19-23 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Proverbs 10:18 ESV / 45 helpful votes

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.

Proverbs 13:5 ESV / 42 helpful votes

The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace.

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

James 2:24 ESV / 37 helpful votes

You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

Psalm 31:18 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

Colossians 3:9-10 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

Acts 5:3 ESV / 35 helpful votes

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?

Proverbs 24:28 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

Proverbs 25:18 ESV / 34 helpful votes

A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.

Psalm 58:3 ESV / 34 helpful votes

The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

Psalm 55:23 ESV / 33 helpful votes

But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

Proverbs 17:7 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a prince.

1 John 2:4 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

Psalm 119:163 ESV / 27 helpful votes

I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law.

2 Peter 3:15-16 ESV / 26 helpful votes

And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Romans 3:4 ESV / 26 helpful votes

By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.”

Revelation 22:15 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

1 John 1:6 ESV / 25 helpful votes

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

James 3:14 ESV / 25 helpful votes

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

Proverbs 14:25 ESV / 25 helpful votes

A truthful witness saves lives, but one who breathes out lies is deceitful.

Proverbs 11:1 ESV / 25 helpful votes

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.

Proverbs 6:16-17 ESV / 25 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Psalm 12:2 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

Deuteronomy 5:20 ESV / 24 helpful votes

“‘And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

1 John 2:22 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

Hebrews 6:18 ESV / 23 helpful votes

So that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

Psalm 119:69 ESV / 23 helpful votes

The insolent smear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep your precepts;

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 23 helpful votes

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

John 8:55 ESV / 22 helpful votes

But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.

Psalm 119:29 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Put false ways far from me and graciously teach me your law!

Psalm 40:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie!

Revelation 2:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes

“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.

James 1:26 ESV / 20 helpful votes

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.

Jeremiah 23:32 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the Lord, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the Lord.

Psalm 63:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes

But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swear by him shall exult, for the mouths of liars will be stopped.

Revelation 21:27 ESV / 19 helpful votes

But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

1 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,

John 14:6 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 19 helpful votes

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

Nahum 3:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and plunder— no end to the prey!

Revelation 21:7-8 ESV / 18 helpful votes

The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son. But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 18 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Romans 10:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes

For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

Proverbs 26:18-19 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I am only joking!”

Proverbs 11:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes

With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.

Zephaniah 3:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Those who are left in Israel; they shall do no injustice and speak no lies, nor shall there be found in their mouth a deceitful tongue. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Proverbs 29:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes

If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.

Genesis 3:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes

But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.

1 John 2:21 ESV / 16 helpful votes

I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 16 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes

The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

Matthew 6:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes

“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

1 John 2:27 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

Matthew 15:18-20 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”

1 Timothy 4:1-2 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,

Galatians 1:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.

Ezekiel 13:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death souls who should not die and keeping alive souls who should not live, by your lying to my people, who listen to lies.

Proverbs 30:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

Psalm 116:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes

I said in my alarm, “All mankind are liars.”

Revelation 22:14-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates. Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

1 Peter 3:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;

James 2:21-24 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

Titus 1:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes

In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

1 Timothy 1:9-10 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

Galatians 3:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”

Acts 5:1-11 ESV / 12 helpful votes

But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet. But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man 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. ...

Luke 1:37 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Jude 1:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes

These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.

Ephesians 4:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes

So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 ESV / 10 helpful votes

The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Proverbs 30:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.

Galatians 2:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

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