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23 Bible Verses About Liars

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  • Exodus 20:16 forbids false testimony against a neighbour, and Deuteronomy 19:18-19 tells Israel to do to a witness proven a liar what that witness intended to do to the accused.
  • Proverbs 6:16-19 names lying twice among the seven things the Lord hates: “a lying tongue” and “a false witness who pours out lies.”
  • Jesus calls the devil “a liar and the father of lies” (John 8:44), and 1 John 2:22 calls the liar “whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ.”
  • In Acts 5 Peter tells Ananias, “You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”
  • Titus 1:2 describes God as one “who does not lie,” and Ephesians 4:25 grounds truthful speech in believers being “members of one body.”

The Bible treats lying as a wrong against both neighbour and God. The Ten Commandments forbid false testimony (Exodus 20:16), Proverbs names a lying tongue among seven things the Lord hates (Proverbs 6:16-19), and Jesus calls the devil “a liar and the father of lies” (John 8:44). Titus 1:2 describes God as one “who does not lie.” The New Testament letters turn this into instruction for churches. “Do not lie to each other,” Paul tells the Colossians (Colossians 3:9), and…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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