Bible Verses About Not Telling the Truth
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for not telling the truth, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,138 votes, led by Proverbs 6:16-19. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Not Telling the Truth
Proverbs 6:16-19137 votes
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Colossians 3:9-10106 votes
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Proverbs 12:22104 votes
Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.
2 Timothy 2:1573 votes
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
John 8:3265 votes
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Ephesians 4:1542 votes
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
John 14:634 votes
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
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?
Ephesians 4:2532 votes
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
John 8:4429 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.
Zechariah 8:1627 votes
These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
Psalms 25:522 votes
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
1 John 3:1822 votes
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Galatians 4:1619 votes
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
John 1:1418 votes
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 4:2418 votes
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
John 17:1717 votes
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Proverbs 12:1916 votes
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
John 8:31-3216 votes
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
James 1:1816 votes
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Revelation 21:816 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.
Exodus 20:1615 votes
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Psalms 43:315 votes
O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
Psalms 86:1115 votes
Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
Hebrews 6:1815 votes
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
What does the Bible say about not telling the truth?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 6:16-19 on the subject of not telling the truth. Across 1,138 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Colossians 3:9-10, Proverbs 12:22, 2 Timothy 2:15. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.