Here are 52 Bible verses about lying lips, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.
Proverbs 6:16-19 KJV
16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Proverbs 12:22 KJV
22 Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Proverbs 12:19 KJV
19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
John 8:44 KJV
44 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.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Revelation 21:8 KJV
8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Exodus 23:1 KJV
1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Colossians 3:9-10 KJV
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Proverbs 24:28 KJV
28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 6:1 KJV
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Peter 5:8 KJV
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Proverbs 12:17 KJV
17 He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Proverbs 14:5 KJV
5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Colossians 3:9 KJV
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 John 1:10 KJV
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
James 1:19 KJV
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 John 1:9 KJV
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Exodus 20:16 KJV
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Isaiah 40:8 KJV
8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Acts 5:1-11 KJV
1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, 2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet. 3 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? 4 Whiles it remained, …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Revelation 21:27 KJV
27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
James 3:14 KJV
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Leviticus 19:11 KJV
11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 John 4:1 KJV
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Psalm 34:13 KJV
13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 John 2:4 KJV
4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Proverbs 21:6 KJV
6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Romans 13:9 KJV
9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
James 4:11 KJV
11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Peter 3:7 KJV
7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 4:25 KJV
25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
John 14:6 KJV
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
James 1:19-22 KJV
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 1:13 KJV
13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Galatians 5:13 KJV
13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Proverbs 18:8 KJV
8 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Proverbs 15:1 KJV
1 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
James 3:3 KJV
3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Proverbs 18:21 KJV
21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Titus 1:12 KJV
12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, the Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Romans 3:10-18 KJV
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Matthew 2:1-23 KJV
1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. 3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 And when he had …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Psalm 119:163 KJV
163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
James 2:19 KJV
19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
2 Timothy 3:16 KJV
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Ephesians 2:1-22 KJV
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Psalm 115:1-18 KJV
1 Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake. 2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? 3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. 5 They have mouths, but they …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Job 1:10 KJV
10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Acts 2:38 KJV
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
Proverbs 10:1-32 KJV
1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. 2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. 3 The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. 4 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 John 3:1-24 KJV
1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth …
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
John 3:16 KJV
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse
1 Timothy 5:24 KJV
24 Some men’s sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.