Key Biblical Texts on Truth & Deception
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Themes |
Gen. 3:13 The serpent tricked me. |
Deception/Deceit/Deceive |
Gen. 29:25 Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me? |
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Gen. 31:20, 26 Jacob deceived Laban . . . “You have deceived me.” |
Deception/Deceit/Deceive |
Lev. 19:11 You shall not deal falsely; and you shall not lie to one another. |
Deception/Deceit/Deceive |
Job 11:11 Surely he recognizes deceivers . . . (NIV) |
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Psalm 32:2 Happy are those to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit is no deceit. |
Deception/Deceit/Deceive |
Psalm 101:7 No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house. |
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Psalm 120:2 Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. |
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Prov. 14:5 A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. |
Deception/Deceit/Deceive |
Isa. 53:9 Although he had done no violence, and there was there any deceit in his mouth. |
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Mark 7:21-22 For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit. . . |
Deception/Deceit/Deceive |
Rom. 1:29 They were filled with every kind of wickedness . . . full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness. . . |
Deception/Deceit/Deceive |
Rom. 16:18 For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded. |
Deception/Deceit/Deceive |
1 Peter 2:1 Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, and all guile. |
Deception/Deceit/Deceive |
Gen. 42:16 . . . in order that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. |
Truth/Truthful |
Psalm 15:1-3 O Lord, who may abide in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy hill? Those who walk blamelessly, and do what is right, and speak the truth from their heart; who do not slander with their tongue, and do no evil to their friends, nor take up a reproach against their neighbors. |
Truth/Truthful |
Prov. 12:17 Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness speaks deceitfully. |
Truth/Truthful |
Prov. 12:19 Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment. |
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Prov. 14:25 A truthful witness saves lives, but one who utters lies is a betrayer. |
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Prov. 22:21 . . . to show you what is right and true, so that you may give a true answer. |
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John 14:6 I am the way, and the truth, and the life. |
Truth/Truthful |
John 16:13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth. |
Truth/Truthful |
John 17:17 Your word is truth. |
Truth/Truthful |
1 John 5:6 And the Spirit is the one that testifies, for the Spirit is the truth. |
Truth/Truthful |
Ex. 20:16/Deut. 5:20 You shall not bear false testimony against your neighbor. |
Falsehood |
Psalm 52:3 You love lying more than speaking the truth. |
Falsehood |
Prov. 30:8 Remove far from me falsehood and lying. |
Falsehood |
Eph. 4:25 So then, putting off falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors. |
Falsehood |
Job 27:4 My lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit. |
Lie/Lying |
Psalm 10:7 Their mouths are filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under their tongues are mischief and iniquity. |
Lie/Lying |
Col. 3:9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off your old self with its practices. |
Lie/Lying |
Titus 1:2 . . . God, who never lies . . . |
Lie/Lying |
Prov. 20:17 Bread gained by deceit is sweet, but afterward the mouth will be full of gravel. |
Fraud |
Gen. 30:33 My honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. |
Honest/Honesty |
Lev. 19:36 You shall have honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah and an honest hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt (see also Deut. 25:15, Prov. 16:11). |
Honest/Honesty |
2 Kings 12:15 They did not ask an accounting from those into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workers, for they dealt honestly. |
Honest/Honesty |
Prov. 16:13 Righteous lips are the delight of a king. |
Honest/Honesty |
Prov. 24:26 One who gives an honest answer gives a kiss on the lips. |
Honest/Honesty |
Matthew 5:37 Let your word be ‘Yes, Yes’ or ‘No, No’; anything more than this comes from the evil one. |
Honest/Honesty |