FALSEHOOD

Passages on this topic · 300

• Genesis 3:4

  The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t surely die,

• Genesis 3:5

  for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

• Genesis 3:12

  The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

• Genesis 3:13

  Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

• Genesis 4:9

  Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

• Genesis 12:11

  When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

• Genesis 12:12

  It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

• Genesis 12:13

  Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

• Genesis 12:14

  When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

• Genesis 12:15

  The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

• Genesis 12:16

  He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

• Genesis 12:17

  Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

• Genesis 12:18

  Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?

• Genesis 12:19

  Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”

• Genesis 18:15

  Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

• Genesis 20:2

  Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

• Genesis 20:5

  Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister?’ She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.”

• Genesis 20:16

  To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”

• Genesis 26:7

  The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”

• Genesis 26:8

  When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

• Genesis 26:9

  Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’” Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”

• Genesis 26:10

  Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”

• Genesis 27:6

  Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

• Genesis 27:7

  ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’

• Genesis 27:8

  Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

• Genesis 27:9

  Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

• Genesis 27:10

  You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

• Genesis 27:11

  Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

• Genesis 27:12

  What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”

• Genesis 27:13

  His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

• Genesis 27:14

  He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

• Genesis 27:15

  Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

• Genesis 27:16

  She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

• Genesis 27:17

  She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

• Genesis 27:18

  He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

• Genesis 27:19

  Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”

• Genesis 27:20

  Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.”

• Genesis 27:21

  Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

• Genesis 27:22

  Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

• Genesis 27:23

  He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.

• Genesis 27:24

  He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”

• Genesis 27:46

  Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”

• Genesis 37:29

  Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

• Genesis 37:30

  He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”

• Genesis 37:31

  They took Joseph’s coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.

• Genesis 37:32

  They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son’s coat or not.”

• Genesis 37:33

  He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”

• Genesis 37:34

  Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

• Genesis 37:35

  All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning.” His father wept for him.

• Genesis 39:14

  she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

• Genesis 39:15

  When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”

• Genesis 39:16

  She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.

• Genesis 39:17

  She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,

• Exodus 20:16

  “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

• Exodus 23:1

  “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

• Exodus 32:1

  When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”

• Exodus 32:2

  Aaron said to them, “Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.”

• Exodus 32:3

  All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

• Exodus 32:4

  He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

• Exodus 32:5

  When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh.”

• Exodus 32:6

  They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

• Exodus 32:7

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!

• Exodus 32:8

  They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”

• Exodus 32:9

  Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

• Exodus 32:10

  Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.”

• Exodus 32:11

  Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

• Exodus 32:12

  Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.

• Exodus 32:13

  Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”

• Exodus 32:14

  Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

• Exodus 32:15

  Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.

• Exodus 32:16

  The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

• Exodus 32:17

  When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is the noise of war in the camp.”

• Exodus 32:18

  He said, “It isn’t the voice of those who shout for victory. It is not the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear.”

• Exodus 32:19

  As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

• Exodus 32:20

  He took the calf which they had made, and burned it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

• Exodus 32:21

  Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?”

• Exodus 32:22

  Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

• Exodus 32:23

  For they said to me, ‘Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’

• Exodus 32:24

  I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:’ so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”

• Leviticus 6:2

  “If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

• Leviticus 6:3

  or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of these things that a man does, sinning therein;

• Leviticus 6:4

  then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

• Leviticus 6:5

  or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his being found guilty.

• Leviticus 6:6

  He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest.

• Leviticus 6:7

  The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty.”

• Leviticus 19:11

  “‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another.

• Leviticus 19:12

  “‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

• Leviticus 19:16

  “‘You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. “‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

• Joshua 2:4

  The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I didn’t know where they came from.

• Joshua 2:5

  About the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went out. Where the men went, I don’t know. Pursue them quickly. You may catch up with them.”

• Joshua 2:6

  But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.

• Judges 3:16

  Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh.

• Judges 3:17

  He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.

• Judges 3:18

  When he had finished offering the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.

• Judges 3:19

  But he himself turned back from the stone idols that were by Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” The king said, “Keep silence!” All who stood by him left him.

• Judges 3:20

  Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a message from God to you.” He arose out of his seat.

• Judges 3:21

  Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body:

• Judges 3:22

  and the handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.

• Judges 3:23

  Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.

• Judges 4:20

  He said to her, “Stand in the door of the tent, and if any man comes and inquires of you, and says, ‘Is there any man here?’ you shall say, ‘No.’”

• 1 Samuel 15:1

  Samuel said to Saul, “Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of Yahweh’s words.

• 1 Samuel 15:2

  Yahweh of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

• 1 Samuel 15:3

  Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

• 1 Samuel 15:4

  Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

• 1 Samuel 15:5

  Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.

• 1 Samuel 15:6

  Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

• 1 Samuel 15:7

  Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.

• 1 Samuel 15:8

  He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

• 1 Samuel 15:9

  But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, and of the fat calves, and the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

• 1 Samuel 15:10

  Then Yahweh’s word came to Samuel, saying,

• 1 Samuel 15:11

  “It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

• 1 Samuel 15:12

  Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.”

• 1 Samuel 15:13

  Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”

• 1 Samuel 15:14

  Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”

• 1 Samuel 15:15

  Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”

• 1 Samuel 15:16

  Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.” He said to him, “Say on.”

• 1 Samuel 15:17

  Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

• 1 Samuel 15:18

  and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’

• 1 Samuel 15:19

  Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?”

• 1 Samuel 15:20

  Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed Yahweh’s voice, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

• 1 Samuel 15:21

  But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.”

• 1 Samuel 15:22

  Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

• 1 Samuel 15:23

  For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

• 1 Samuel 15:24

  Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

• 1 Samuel 15:25

  Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh.”

• 1 Samuel 15:26

  Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 19:12

  So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.

• 1 Samuel 19:13

  Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothes.

• 1 Samuel 19:14

  When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”

• 1 Samuel 19:15

  Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”

• 1 Samuel 19:16

  When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.

• 1 Samuel 19:17

  Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he is escaped?” Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’”

• 1 Samuel 21:13

  He changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.

• 1 Samuel 21:14

  Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is insane. Why then have you brought him to me?

• 1 Samuel 21:15

  Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my house?”

• 1 Samuel 22:11

  Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and they all came to the king.

• 1 Samuel 22:12

  Saul said, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub.” He answered, “Here I am, my lord.”

• 1 Samuel 22:13

  Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”

• 1 Samuel 22:14

  Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?

• 1 Samuel 22:15

  Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.”

• 1 Samuel 22:16

  The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father’s house.”

• 1 Samuel 27:8

  David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, on the way to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.

• 1 Samuel 27:9

  David struck the land, and saved no man or woman alive, and took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned, and came to Achish.

• 1 Samuel 27:10

  Achish said, “Against whom have you made a raid today?” David said, “Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.”

• 1 Samuel 27:11

  David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, “Lest they should tell about us, saying, ‘David did this, and this has been his way all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’”

• 1 Samuel 27:12

  Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he will be my servant forever.”

• 2 Samuel 1:10

  So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he had fallen. I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord.”

• 2 Samuel 1:11

  Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and all the men who were with him did likewise.

• 2 Samuel 1:12

  They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they had fallen by the sword.

• 2 Samuel 15:34

  but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’

• 2 Samuel 15:35

  Don’t you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? Therefore whatever you hear out of the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

• 2 Samuel 15:36

  Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son. Send to me everything that you shall hear by them.”

• 2 Samuel 15:37

  So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 16:16

  When Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, had come to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”

• 2 Samuel 16:17

  Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”

• 2 Samuel 16:18

  Hushai said to Absalom, “No; but whomever Yahweh, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him I will stay.

• 2 Samuel 16:19

  Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn’t I serve in the presence of his son? As I have served in your father’s presence, so will I be in your presence.”

• 2 Samuel 17:7

  Hushai said to Absalom, “The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.”

• 2 Samuel 17:8

  Hushai said moreover, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

• 2 Samuel 17:9

  Behold, he is now hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will happen, when some of them have fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom!’

• 2 Samuel 17:10

  Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.

• 2 Samuel 17:11

  But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.

• 2 Samuel 17:12

  So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not leave so much as one.

• 2 Samuel 17:13

  Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there.”

• 2 Samuel 17:14

  Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 17:15

  Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way.

• 2 Samuel 17:16

  Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’”

• 2 Samuel 17:17

  Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city.

• 2 Samuel 17:18

  But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.

• 2 Samuel 17:19

  The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out bruised grain on it; and nothing was known.

• 2 Samuel 17:20

  Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman said to them, “They have gone over the brook of water.” When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 17:21

  After they had departed, they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, “Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.”

• 2 Samuel 17:22

  Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.

• 1 Kings 2:23

  Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

• Job 1:9

  Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

• Job 1:10

  Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

• Job 2:4

  Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

• Job 2:5

  But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

• Job 13:4

  But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

• Job 21:34

  So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

• Job 27:4

  surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

• Job 31:5

  “If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

• Job 31:6

  (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

• Job 31:33

  if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

• Job 36:4

  For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

• Psalms 5:6

  You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

• Psalms 5:9

  For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

• Psalms 10:7

  His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

• Psalms 12:2

  Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

• Psalms 12:3

  May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

• Psalms 28:3

  Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

• Psalms 31:18

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

• Psalms 34:13

  Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

• Psalms 36:3

  The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

• Psalms 50:19

  “You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

• Psalms 50:20

  You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

• Psalms 52:2

  Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

• Psalms 52:3

  You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.

• Psalms 52:4

  You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

• Psalms 52:5

  God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

• Psalms 55:21

  His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

• Psalms 55:23

  But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

• Psalms 58:3

  The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

• Psalms 59:12

  For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

• Psalms 62:4

  They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

• Psalms 63:11

  But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

• Psalms 101:5

  I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

• Psalms 101:7

  He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.

• Psalms 109:2

  for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

• Psalms 116:11

  I said in my haste, “All men are liars.”

• Psalms 119:29

  Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!

• Psalms 119:69

  The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

• Psalms 119:163

  I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.

• Psalms 120:2

  Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

• Psalms 120:3

  What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

• Psalms 120:4

  Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

• Psalms 144:8

  whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

• Psalms 144:11

  Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

• Proverbs 2:12

  to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

• Proverbs 2:13

  who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

• Proverbs 2:14

  who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

• Proverbs 2:15

  who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

• Proverbs 3:3

  Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

• Proverbs 6:12

  A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

• Proverbs 6:13

  who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers;

• Proverbs 6:17

  haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

• Proverbs 6:18

  a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

• Proverbs 6:19

  a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

• Proverbs 10:9

  He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

• Proverbs 10:10

  One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.

• Proverbs 10:18

  He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

• Proverbs 10:31

  The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

• Proverbs 11:9

  With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

• Proverbs 12:17

  He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

• Proverbs 12:19

  Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.

• Proverbs 12:20

  Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.

• Proverbs 12:22

  Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

• Proverbs 13:5

  A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.

• Proverbs 14:5

  A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

• Proverbs 14:8

  The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

• Proverbs 14:25

  A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful.

• Proverbs 17:4

  An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

• Proverbs 17:7

  Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.

• Proverbs 19:5

  A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

• Proverbs 19:9

  A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

• Proverbs 19:22

  That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

• Proverbs 19:28

  A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.

• Proverbs 20:17

  Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

• Proverbs 21:6

  Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

• Proverbs 26:18

  Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,

• Proverbs 26:19

  is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”

• Proverbs 26:24

  A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.

• Proverbs 26:25

  When his speech is charming, don’t believe him; for there are seven abominations in his heart.

• Proverbs 26:26

  His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

• Proverbs 26:28

  A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

• Proverbs 27:14

  He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.

• Ecclesiastes 5:6

  Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

• Isaiah 28:15

  “Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”

• Isaiah 32:7

  The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

• Isaiah 57:11

  “Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?

• Isaiah 59:3

  For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

• Isaiah 59:4

  No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

• Isaiah 59:12

  For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

• Isaiah 59:13

  transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

• Isaiah 63:8

  For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.

• Jeremiah 7:8

  Behold, you trust in lying words, that can’t profit.

• Jeremiah 7:28

  You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to Yahweh their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’

• Jeremiah 9:3

  “They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood; and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 9:5

  Everyone will deceive their neighbors, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

• Jeremiah 9:6

  Your habitation is in the middle of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 9:8

  Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he lays wait for him.

• Jeremiah 12:6

  For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

• Jeremiah 50:36

  A sword is on the boasters, and they will become fools. A sword is on her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.

• Ezekiel 22:9

  Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

• Hosea 4:1

  Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

• Hosea 4:2

  There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

• Obadiah 1:7

  All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.”

• Micah 6:12

  Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

• Nahum 3:1

  Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.

• Zephaniah 3:13

  The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”

• Matthew 4:8

  Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

• Matthew 4:9

  He said to him, “I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.”

• Matthew 25:44

  “Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’

• Matthew 25:45

  “Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

• Matthew 25:46

  These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

• Luke 4:6

  The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.

• Luke 4:7

  If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours.”

• John 8:44

  You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

• John 8:45

  But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.

• Ephesians 4:25

  Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

• Ephesians 4:29

  Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

• Colossians 3:9

  Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

• 1 Timothy 1:9

  as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

• 1 Timothy 1:10

  for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

• 1 Timothy 4:2

  through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

• 1 Peter 3:10

  For, “He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

• 1 Peter 3:16

  having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

• Revelation 21:8

  But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

• Revelation 21:27

  There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

• Revelation 22:15

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