43 Bible Verses About Lying and Deceit

Here are 43 Bible verses about lying and deceit from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.

Psalms 12:2 KJV

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

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Psalms 31:18 KJV

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

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Psalms 101:7 KJV

He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

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1 Kings 22:22 KJV

And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.

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Psalms 120:2 KJV

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

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Jeremiah 23:26 KJV

How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;

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Isaiah 44:20 KJV

He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

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Psalms 5:6 KJV

Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

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Micah 7:5 KJV

Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

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Micah 6:12 KJV

For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

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Jeremiah 7:8 KJV

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

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Hosea 11:12 KJV

Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.

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Proverbs 14:5 KJV

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

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Proverbs 12:22 KJV

Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

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Colossians 3:9 KJV

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

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Psalms 55:11 KJV

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

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John 8:44 KJV

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

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1 John 1:6 KJV

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

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1 Kings 13:18 KJV

He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.

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Zephaniah 3:13 KJV

The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

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1 Kings 22:23 KJV

Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.

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Jeremiah 9:6 KJV

Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

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Proverbs 26:28 KJV

A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

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Psalms 109:2 KJV

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

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Daniel 11:27 KJV

And both these kings’ hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.

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1 Peter 2:22 KJV

Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

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Proverbs 14:25 KJV

A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.

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Psalms 144:11 KJV

Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

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Jeremiah 9:5 KJV

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

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Psalms 78:36 KJV

Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

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Proverbs 24:28 KJV

Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

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Leviticus 19:11 KJV

Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

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Isaiah 30:9 KJV

That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

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Psalms 52:3 KJV

Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

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Isaiah 59:13 KJV

In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

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Psalms 119:29 KJV

Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.

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Proverbs 30:8 KJV

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

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Acts 5:3 KJV

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

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2 Thessalonians 2:11 KJV

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

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1 John 1:10 KJV

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

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Proverbs 12:19 KJV

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

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Psalms 144:8 KJV

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

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2 Chronicles 18:21 KJV

And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.

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