What Does the Bible Say About Faking?

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Jude 1:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.

Matthew 5:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

James 4:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Colossians 3:5-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices ...

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

1 John 3:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

1 Corinthians 14:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the Law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”

Acts 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

John 21:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

John 15:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.

Mark 3:22-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.” And he called them to him and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end. ...

Matthew 28:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Romans 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.

Acts 21:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”

Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Acts 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?

Acts 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. ...

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Acts 26:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

Acts 10:25-26 ESV / 1 helpful vote

When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him. But Peter lifted him up, saying, “Stand up; I too am a man.”

John 1:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Matthew 27:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.

27 Bible Verses about Faking

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Jude 1:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Matthew 5:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

James 4:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Colossians 3:5-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 3:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 21:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 15:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Mark 3:22-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 28:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 21:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 26:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 10:25-26 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 1:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 27:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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27 Bible Verses about Faking

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Galatians 5:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Jude 1:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Matthew 5:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

James 4:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Colossians 3:5-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 3:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 21:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 15:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Mark 3:22-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 28:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 21:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 26:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 10:25-26 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 1:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 27:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote