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Lie, Lied, Lying, Lies, Liar, Liars in Old and New Testaments

Updated: Nov 4, 2019

"Lie" in Old Testament: Lev. 19:11 – “You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.” Re: man Numbers 23:19 – “God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” re: God I Sam. 15:29 – “Also the Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind.” Re: God II Kings 4:16 – “Then he (Elisha) said, “At this season next year you will embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God, do not lie to your maidservant.” Re: man II Kings 9:12 – “They said, “It is a lie, tell us now.” And he said, “thus and thus he said to me, “Thus says the Lord, “I have anointed you king over Israel.” Re: men Job 6:28 – “Now please look at me, And see if I lie to your face.” Re: men Job 34:6 – “Should I lie concerning my right? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.” Re: men Psa. 62:9 – “Men of low degree are only vanity and men of rank are a lie; In the balances they go up; They are together lighter than breath.” Re: men

Psalm 89:35 – “Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David.” Re: God Psalm 119:69 – “The arrogant have forged a lie against me; With all my heart I will observe Your precepts.” Re: men Psalm 119:78 – “May the arrogant be ashamed, for they subvert me with a lie, But I shall meditate on Your precepts.” Re: men Psalm 119:86 – “All Your commandments are faithful; They have persecuted me with a lie; help me!” re: men Proverbs 14:5 – “A trustworthy witness will not lie, But a false witness utters lies.” Isaiah 44:20 – “He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver himself, nor say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?” re: men Jeremiah 8:8 – “How can you say, ‘We are wise, And the law of the Lord is with us’? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes Has made it into a lie.” Re: men Jeremiah 27:10 – “For they prophesy a lie to you in order to remove you far from your land; and I will drive you out and you will perish.” Re: men Jeremiah 27:14 – “So do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, “You will not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they prophesy a lie to you;” re: men Jeremiah 27:16 – “Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says the Lord: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the Lord’s house will now shortly be brought again from Babylon’; for they are prophesying a lie to you.” Jeremiah 28:15 – “Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet, “Listen now, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.” Re: men Jeremiah 29:31 – “Send to all the exiles, saying, ‘thus says the Lord concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite, “Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, although I did not send him, and he has made you trust in a lie,” re: men Jeremiah 37:14 – “But Jeremiah said, “A lie! I am not going over to the Chaldeans”; yet he would not listen to him. So Irijah arrested Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.” Re: men Jeremiah 40:16 – “But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, “Do not do this thing, for you are telling a lie about Ishmael.” Re: men Jeremiah 43:2 – “Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Joahana the son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, “you are not to enter Egypt to reside there.” Ezekiel 13:8 – “Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Because you have spoken falsehood and seen a lie, therefore behold, I am against you,” declares the Lord God.” Re: men


"Lie" in New Testament I John 2:21 – “I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth.” Re: men I John 2:27 – “As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for any one to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie; and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.” Re: God Revelation 3:9 – “Behold I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie – I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and make them know that I have loved you.” Re: men Revelation 14:5 – “And no lie was found in their mouth; they are blameless.” Re: men


"Lies" in Old Testament Judges 16:10,13 – “Then Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have deceived me and told me lies; now please tell me how you may be bound.” ….Then Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies; tell me how you may be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my hair with the web [and fasten it with a pin, then I will become weak and be like any other man.” Re: men Job 13:4 – “But you smear with lies; You are all worthless physicians.” Re: men Psalm 58:3 – “The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth.” Re: men Psalm 59:12 – “On account of the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, Let them even be caught in their pride, And on account of curses and lies which they utter.” Re: men Psalm 63:11 – “But the king will rejoice in God; Everyone who swears by Him will glory, For the mouths of those who speak lies will be stopped.” Re: men Proverbs 6:19 – “A false witness who utters lies, And one who spreads strife among brothers.” Re: men Proverbs 14:5 – “A trustworthy witness will not lie, But a false witness utters lies.” Re: men Proverbs 14:25 – “A truthful witness saves lives, But he who utters lies is treacherous.” Re: men Proverbs 19:5 – “A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who tells lies will not escape.” Re: men Proverbs 19:9 – “A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who tells lies will perish.” Re:men Proverbs 30:8 – “Keep deception and lies far from me, Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is my portion,” re: men Isaiah 28:17 – “I will make justice the measuring line And righteousness the level; Then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies And the waters will overflow the secret place.” Re: men Isaiah 59:4 – “No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly. They trust in confusion and speak lies; They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.” Re: men Jeremiah 9:3 – “They bend their tongue like their bow; Lies and not truth prevail in the land; For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me, declares the Lord.” Re: men Jeremiah 9:5 – “Everyone deceives his neighbor And does not speak the truth They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves committing iniquity.” Re: men Ezekiel 13:19 – “For handfuls of barley and fragments of bread, you have profaned Me to My people to put to death some who should not die and to keep others alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies.” Re: men Ezekiel 21:29 – “while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you – to place you on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end.” Re: men Ezekiel 22:28 – “Her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken.” Re: men Daniel 11:27 – “As for both kings, their hearts will be intent on evil, and they will speak lies to each other at the same table; but it will not succeed, for the end is still to come at the appointed time.” Re: men Hosea 7:3 – “With their wickedness they make the king glad, And the princes with their lies.” Re: men Hosea 10:13 – “You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice, You have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your way, in your numerous warriors,” re: men Hosea 11:12 – “Ephraim surrounds Me with lies And the house of Israel with deceit; Judah is also unruly against God, Even against the Holy One who is faithful.” Re: men Hosea 12:1 – “Ephraim feeds on wind, And pursued the east wind continually; He multiplies lies and violence. Moreover, he makes a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.” Re: men Amos 2:4 – “Thus says the Lord, For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they rejected the law of the Lord And have not kept His statutes; Their lies also have led them astray, Those after which their fathers walked.” Re: men Micah 2:11 – “If a man walking after wind and falsehood Had told lies and said, I will speak out to you concerning wine and liquor, He would be spokesman to this people.” re: men Micah 6:12 – “For the rich men of the city are full of violence, Her residents speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.” Re: men Nahum 3:1 – “Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies and pillage; Her prey never departs.” Re: men Zephaniah 3:13 – “The remnant of Israel will do no wrong And tell no lies, Nor will a deceitful tongue Be found in their mouths; For they will feed and lie down With no one to make them tremble.” Re: men


"Lies" in New Testament: 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 does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” Re: Satan

Lied in Old Testament: Leviticus 6:3 – “or has found what was lost and lied about it and sworn falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one of the things a man may do;” re: men I Kings 13:18 – “He said to him, “I also am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying ‘Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” But he lied to him.” Re: men Psalm 78:36 – “But they deceived Him with their mouth and lied to Him with their tongue.” Re: men Isaiah 57:11 – “Of whom were you worried and fearful When you lied, and did not remember Me Nor give Me a thought? Was I not silent even for a long time So you do not fear Me?” re: men Jeremiah 5:12 – “They have lied about the Lord and said, Not He; Misfortune will not come on us, And we will not see sword or famine.”

Lied in New Testament: Acts 5:4 – “While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.” Re: men

Lying in Old Testament: Psalm 120:2 – “Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, From a deceitful tongue.” Re: men request for self Proverbs 6:16, 17 – “There are six things which the Lord hates, Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood.” Re: men Proverbs 10:18 – “He who conceals hatred has lying lips, And he who spreads slander is a fool.” Proverbs 12:19 – “Truthful lips will be established forever, But a lying tongue is only for a moment.” Proverbs 12:22 – “Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, But those who deal faithfully are His delight.” Proverbs 17:7 – “Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool, Much less are lying lips to a prince.” Re: men Proverbs 21:6 – “The acquisition of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor, the pursuit of death.” Re: men Proverbs 26:28 – “A lying tongue hates those it crushes, And a flattering mouth works ruin.” Isaiah 59:13 – “Transgressing and denying the Lord, And turning away from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words.” Re: men Context is prayer of confession = vs. 9-14 Jeremiah 8:8 – “How can you say, ‘We are wise, And the law of the Lord is with us’? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes Has made it into a lie.” Re: men Ezekiel 13:6,7,9 “They see falsehood and lying divination who are saying, ‘The Lord declares,’ when the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope for the fulfillment of their word. Did you not see a false vision and speak a lying divination when you said, ‘The Lord declares,’ but it is not I who have spoken?”’” …. So My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will have no place in the council of My people, nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel, that you may know that I am the Lord God.” Re: men Ezekiel 13:19 – “For handfuls of barley and fragments of bread, you have profaned Me to My people to put to death some who should not die and to keep others alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies.” Re: men Daniel 2:9 – “that if you do not make the dream known to me, there is only one decree for you. For you have agreed together to speak lying and corrupt words before me until the situation is changed; therefore tell me the dream, that I may know that you can declare to me its interpretation.” Re: men Zechariah 10:2 – “For the teraphim speak iniquity, And the diviners see lying visions and tell false dreams; They comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep, They are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.” Re: men


"Lying" in New Testament: Romans 9:1 “I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit.” re: men II Corinthians 11:31 – “The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.” Re: men Galatians 1:20 – “(Now in what I am writing to you, I assure you before God that I am not lying,)” re: men I Timothy 2:7 – “For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying) as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.” Revelation 21:27 – “and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.” Re: men “it” = the New Jerusalem Revelation 22:15 – “Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.”


"Liar" in Old Testament: Job 24:25 – “Now if it is not so, who can prove me a liar, And make my speech worthless?” re: men Proverbs 17:4 – “An evildoer listens to wicked lips; A liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.” Re: men Proverbs 19:22 – “What is desirable in a man is his kindness, And it is better to be a poor man than a liar.” Re: men Proverbs 30:6 – “Do not add to His words Or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar.” Re: men


"Liar" in New Testament: 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 does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” Re: satan John 8:55 – “and you have not come to know Him, but I know Him; and if I say that I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know Him and keep His word.” Re: Jesus/God and men Romans 3:4 – “May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written, “THAT YOU MAY BE JUSTIFIED IN YOUR WORDS, AND PREVAIL WHEN YOU ARE JUDGED.” Re: men and God I John 1:10 – “If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.” Re: God and men I John 2:4 – “The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” Re: men I John 2:22 – “Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.” Re: men I John 4:20 – “If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.” Re: men I John 5:10 – “The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son.” Re: God


"Liars" in Old Testament: Psalm 116:11 – “I said in my alarm, “All men are liars.” Re: men

Liars in New Testament: I Timothy 1:10 – “and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,” re: men I Timothy 4:2 – “by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,” re: men Titus 1:12 – “One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” Revelation 21:8 – “ But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murders and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” Re: men

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