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Want to know what the Bible says about Telling Lies? Here are 115 Bible verses about Telling Lies from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Titus 1:2 NIV
in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time,
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John 14:6 NIV
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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Colossians 3:9-10 NIV
9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
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Psalm 5:6 NIV
    you destroy those who tell lies.
The bloodthirsty and deceitful
    you, Lord, detest.
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Psalm 101:7 NIV
No one who practices deceit
    will dwell in my house;
no one who speaks falsely
    will stand in my presence.
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Proverbs 14:5 NIV
An honest witness does not deceive,
    but a false witness pours out lies.
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Proverbs 26:28 NIV
A lying tongue hates those it hurts,
    and a flattering mouth works ruin.
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Zechariah 8:16 NIV
These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other, and render true and sound judgment in your courts;
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Proverbs 19:22 NIV
What a person desires is unfailing love ;
    better to be poor than a liar.
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Proverbs 14:25 NIV
A truthful witness saves lives,
    but a false witness is deceitful.
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1 Peter 3:10 NIV
For,
“Whoever would love life
    and see good days
must keep their tongue from evil
    and their lips from deceitful speech.
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Proverbs 17:4 NIV
A wicked person listens to deceitful lips;
    a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.
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Proverbs 25:18 NIV
Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow
    is one who gives false testimony against a neighbor.
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1 Timothy 4:2 NIV
Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
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Mark 9:43 NIV
If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out.
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1 Corinthians 14:33 NIV
For God is not a God of disorder but of peace —as in all the congregations of the Lord’s people.
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Hebrews 2:14 NIV
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil
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Ephesians 4:15 NIV
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.
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Proverbs 13:5 NIV
The righteous hate what is false,
    but the wicked make themselves a stench
    and bring shame on themselves.
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