Bible Verses About Lies
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for lies, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,672 votes, led by Proverbs 12:22. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Lies
Proverbs 12:22183 votes
Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.
Colossians 3:9-10126 votes
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
1 Corinthians 10:1388 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Psalms 101:783 votes
He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
1 John 2:483 votes
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
John 8:4462 votes
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.
Proverbs 12:1955 votes
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Matthew 5:1154 votes
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Proverbs 14:550 votes
A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
Proverbs 10:1843 votes
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Romans 1:2942 votes
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
1 Timothy 1:1042 votes
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
Proverbs 17:740 votes
Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
2 Corinthians 5:1738 votes
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Proverbs 6:16-1934 votes
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Romans 1:3034 votes
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Colossians 3:934 votes
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Numbers 23:1932 votes
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Psalms 120:232 votes
Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
Proverbs 30:832 votes
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Revelation 21:832 votes
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.
Psalms 34:1330 votes
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Genesis 3:4-529 votes
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Proverbs 19:529 votes
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
1 John 1:627 votes
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
What does the Bible say about lies?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 12:22 on the subject of lies. Across 3,672 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Colossians 3:9-10, 1 Corinthians 10:13, Psalms 101:7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.