29 verses contain “falsehood” (in the KJV: 16, in the BSB: 19) — showing 1–29
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Otherwise I should have wrought
falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter
hid from the king, and thou
thyself wouldest have set
thyself against me.
If I had
jeopardized my own life—and nothing is hidden from the king—you would have abandoned me.”
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to
deceit;
If I have walked in
falsehood or my foot has
rushed to
deceit,
For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
For truly my words are free of falsehood; one perfect in knowledge is with you.
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, who has not turned to the proud, nor to those who
lapse into
falsehood.
And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
My
visitor speaks
falsehood; he gathers
slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.
Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness.
Selah.
You love evil more than good,
falsehood more than speaking truth.
Selah Thou hast
trodden down all them that
err from thy statutes: for their
deceit is
falsehood.
I
hate and
abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
I
hate and
abhor falsehood, but Your law I love.
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
whose mouths speak
falsehood, whose right hands are
deceitful.
Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
Set me free and
rescue me from the
grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak
falsehood, whose right hands are
deceitful.
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is
loathsome, and cometh to shame.
The righteous
hate falsehood, but the wicked bring shame and disgrace.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Keep
falsehood and
deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with
hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing
scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under
falsehood have we
hid ourselves:
For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with
Sheol. When the
overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and
falsehood our hiding place.”
Against whom do ye
sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of
transgression, a seed of
falsehood,
In
transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of
falsehood.
rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
Every man is
brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the
graven image: for his
molten image is
falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every
goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his
molten images are a
fraud, and there is no breath in them.
This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that
prophesy lies?
yea, they are prophets of the
deceit of their own heart;
How long will this continue in the hearts of these prophets who
prophesy falsehood, these prophets of the
delusion of their own minds?
Every man is
brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the
graven image: for his
molten image is
falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every
goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his
molten images are a
fraud, and there is no breath in them.
When I would have
healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit
falsehood; and the
thief cometh in, and the
troop of robbers spoileth without.
When I
heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice
deceit and
thieves break in;
bandits raid in the streets.
If a man walking in the spirit and
falsehood do lie, saying, I will
prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will
preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!
He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood.
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a
sinner?
However, if my
falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a
sinner?
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Therefore each of you must put off
falsehood and speak truthfully to his
neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and
whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and
everyone who loves and practices
falsehood.
And when he had
stirred up their minds, he gave them their charge,
shewing them therewithall the
falsehood of the heathen, and the breach of oaths.