"Do not steal or cheat or lie.

Then the old prophet from Bethel said to him, "I, too, am a prophet just like you, and at the LORD's command an angel told me to take you home with me and offer you my hospitality." But the old prophet was lying.

You love evil more than good and falsehood more than truth.

Keep me from going the wrong way, and in your goodness teach me your law.

(SEE 6:16)

A lie has a short life, but truth lives on forever.

The LORD hates liars, but is pleased with those who keep their word.

The riches you get by dishonesty soon disappear, but not before they lead you into the jaws of death.

The old and honorable men are the head---and the tail is the prophets whose teachings are lies!

You are guilty of lying, violence, and murder.

You go to court, but you do not have justice on your side. You depend on lies to win your case. You carry out your plans to hurt others.

The LORD said, "They are my people; they will not deceive me." And so he saved them

They are always ready to tell lies; dishonesty instead of truth rules the land. The LORD says, "My people do one evil thing after another and do not acknowledge me as their God."

They all mislead their friends, and no one tells the truth; they have taught their tongues to lie and will not give up their sinning. They do one violent thing after another, and one deceitful act follows another. The LORD says that his people reject him.

They make promises and break them; they lie, murder, steal, and commit adultery. Crimes increase, and there is one murder after another.

You are the children of your father, the Devil, and you want to follow your father's desires. From the very beginning he was a murderer and has never been on the side of truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he is only doing what is natural to him, because he is a liar and the father of all lies.

Peter said to him, "Ananias, why did you let Satan take control of you and make you lie to the Holy Spirit by keeping part of the money you received for the property?

Before you sold the property, it belonged to you; and after you sold it, the money was yours. Why, then, did you decide to do such a thing? You have not lied to people---you have lied to God!"

Do not lie to one another, for you have put off the old self with its habits

for the immoral, for sexual perverts, for kidnappers, for those who lie and give false testimony or who do anything else contrary to sound doctrine.

Such teachings are spread by deceitful liars, whose consciences are dead, as if burnt with a hot iron.

which is based on the hope for eternal life. God, who does not lie, promised us this life before the beginning of time,

It was a Cretan himself, one of their own prophets, who spoke the truth when he said, "Cretans are always liars, wicked beasts, and lazy gluttons." For this reason you must rebuke them sharply, so that they may have a healthy faith

But cowards, traitors, perverts, murderers, the immoral, those who practice magic, those who worship idols, and all liars---the place for them is the lake burning with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

But outside the city are the perverts and those who practice magic, the immoral and the murderers, those who worship idols and those who are liars both in words and deeds.

Instead, by speaking the truth in a spirit of love, we must grow up in every way to Christ, who is the head.

What I say is the truth; lies are hateful to me.

When you tell the truth, justice is done, but lies lead to injustice.

These are the things you should do: Speak the truth to one another. In the courts give real justice---the kind that brings peace.

"The fasts held in the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will become festivals of joy and gladness for the people of Judah. You must love truth and peace."

I did boast of you to him, and you have not disappointed me. We have always spoken the truth to you, and in the same way the boast we made to Titus has proved true.

Do not lie to one another, for you have put off the old self with its habits

for we are members of his body.)

In the same way, though we are many, we are one body in union with Christ, and we are all joined to each other as different parts of one body.

Because there is the one loaf of bread, all of us, though many, are one body, for we all share the same loaf.

Christ is like a single body, which has many parts; it is still one body, even though it is made up of different parts.

For the body itself is not made up of only one part, but of many parts.

And if the ear were to say, "Because I am not an eye, I don't belong to the body," that would not keep it from being a part of the body.

As it is, however, God put every different part in the body just as he wanted it to be.

As it is, there are many parts but one body.

On the contrary, we cannot do without the parts of the body that seem to be weaker;

which the more beautiful parts do not need. God himself has put the body together in such a way as to give greater honor to those parts that need it.

If one part of the body suffers, all the other parts suffer with it; if one part is praised, all the other parts share its happiness.