Falsehood

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Ecclesiastes 5:6 OT

  Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

• Isaiah 28:15 OT

  “Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under…

• Isaiah 32:7 OT

  The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

• Isaiah 57:11 OT

  “Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?

• Isaiah 59:3 OT

  For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

• Isaiah 59:4 OT

  No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

• Isaiah 59:12 OT

  For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

• Isaiah 59:13 OT

  transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

• Isaiah 63:8 OT

  For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.

• Jeremiah 7:8 OT

  Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.

• Jeremiah 7:28 OT

  You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to Yahweh their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’

• Jeremiah 9:3 OT

  “They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 9:5 OT

  Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

• Jeremiah 9:6 OT

  Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 9:8 OT

  Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

• Jeremiah 12:6 OT

  For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

• Jeremiah 50:36 OT

  A sword is on the boasters, and they will become fools. A sword is on her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.

• Ezekiel 22:9 OT

  Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

• Hosea 4:1 OT

  Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

• Hosea 4:2 OT

  There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

• Obadiah 1:1 OT

  The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.

• Micah 6:12 OT

  Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

• Nahum 3:1 OT

  Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.

• Zephaniah 3:13 OT

  The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”