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100 Bible Verses about Lying Tongue

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 66 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.

Proverbs 12:22 ESV / 63 helpful votes

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

John 8:44 ESV / 58 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.

Exodus 20:16 ESV / 56 helpful votes

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 47 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.”

Proverbs 14:5 ESV / 44 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 12:19 ESV / 43 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:9 ESV / 40 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 38 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.

Proverbs 19:9 ESV / 37 helpful votes

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

Leviticus 19:11 ESV / 37 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 26:28 ESV / 32 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:9-10 ESV / 30 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.

Psalm 119:163 ESV / 30 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 3:10 ESV / 26 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 1:26 ESV / 25 helpful votes

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

1 John 1:9 ESV / 24 helpful votes

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

Psalm 101:7 ESV / 24 helpful votes

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

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 24 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?

Proverbs 24:28 ESV / 23 helpful votes

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

Psalm 5:6 ESV / 23 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 21:6 ESV / 22 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 19:5 ESV / 22 helpful votes

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

Revelation 21:27 ESV / 21 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.

Proverbs 19:22 ESV / 20 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Proverbs 13:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes

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

John 14:6 ESV / 18 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.

Proverbs 25:18 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 17:4 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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

Acts 5:1-11 ESV / 17 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. ...

Proverbs 14:25 ESV / 17 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 12:17 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit.

Revelation 22:15 ESV / 16 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 4:1 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

James 1:19 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Romans 13:9 ESV / 16 helpful votes

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Proverbs 21:23 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.

Psalm 58:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

Psalm 34:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.

Exodus 23:1 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Proverbs 26:18-19 ESV / 15 helpful votes

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

Psalm 120:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:29 ESV / 15 helpful votes

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

James 3:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Romans 1:25 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 14 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 14 helpful votes

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Revelation 21:7-8 ESV / 13 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 John 2:21 ESV / 13 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.

James 3:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes

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

James 3:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.

James 3:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes

So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!

Hebrews 6:18 ESV / 13 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.

Romans 12:17-21 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Acts 5:3 ESV / 13 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?

Matthew 15:18-20 ESV / 13 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.”

Proverbs 29:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 6:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Titus 1:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes

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

Zephaniah 3:13 ESV / 12 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.”

Proverbs 18:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes

The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

Psalm 12:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes

May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

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.

1 Corinthians 13:6 ESV / 11 helpful votes

It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

Proverbs 15:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

Psalm 62:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes

They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah

Genesis 3:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes

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

1 John 1:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

James 3:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.

Proverbs 20:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

Proverbs 17:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 4:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.

Psalm 119:69 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

Psalm 12:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

Jude 1:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

1 John 2:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

1 John 1:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes

If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

James 3:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

Romans 1:29 ESV / 9 helpful votes

They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,

Proverbs 30:8 ESV / 9 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,

Proverbs 6:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes

A false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Psalm 31:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

Revelation 22:14-15 ESV / 8 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.

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 8 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.

Revelation 2:2 ESV / 8 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.

1 Peter 2:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

James 3:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

James 3:1-18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! ...

2 Timothy 4:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 ESV / 8 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.

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.

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