Did you know that God hates it when people lie? Did you know that Satan is the Father of all lies? It is not enough to know the Truth, we must live it! In this study I will reveal how dishonesty is the work of Satan and how as Christians we must all be careful not to fall into the trap of telling lies.
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Scripture Outline (NIV)
John 8:44-45
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s
desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for
there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he
is a liar and the father of lies. 45Yet because I tell the truth, you do not
believe me!
Exodus 20:16
You shall not give false testimony against your neighbour.
Leviticus 19:11
Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not deceive one another.
Luke 3:14
Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we
do?” He replied, “Don’t extort money and don’t accuse people
falsely-be content with your pay.”
Ephesians 4:25
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak
truthfully to his neighbour, for we are all members of one body.
Psalms 31:18
Let their lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous.
Psalm 52:2-4
Your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened razor,
you who practice deceit. You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking the truth.
Selah. You love every harmful word, O you deceitful tongue!
Psalm 119:29
Keep me from deceitful ways; be gracious to me through your
law.
Proverbs 12:22
The Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are
truthful.
Proverbs 24:28
Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, or use
your lips to deceive.
Proverbs 14:5
A truthful witness does not deceive, but a false witness
pours out lies.
Proverbs 24:28
Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, or use
your lips to deceive.
Proverbs 12:19
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only
a moment.
Proverbs 6:16-19
There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are
detestable to him:
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent
blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into
evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension
among brothers.
Proverbs 14:5
A truthful witness does not deceive, but a false witness
pours out lies.
Proverbs 26:28
A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth
works ruin.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery,
sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
John 4:23-24
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true
worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind
of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship
in spirit and in truth.
John 8:44
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry
out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to
the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native
language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Ephesians 4:25
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak
truthfully to his neighbour, for we are all members of one body.
Colossians 3:9-10
Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old
self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in
knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Revelation 22:14-15
Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have
the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.
Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the
murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Revelation 21:8
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually
immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars-their place
will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.