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Bible Verses About Lying and Cheating
Find Bible verses about lying and cheating — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about lying and cheating?
The Bible addresses lying and cheating with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Proverbs 26:28
“A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.”
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Ezekiel 13:6
“They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, Yahweh says; but Yahweh has not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.”
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Jonah 2:8
“Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.”
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Proverbs 10:18
“He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.”
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Proverbs 6:17
“haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;”
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Jeremiah 23:32
“Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them, nor commanded them; n...”
Proverbs 17:7
“Arrogant speech isn't fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.”
Psalms 52:3
“You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.”
Lamentations 3:10
“He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.”
Ezekiel 13:7
“Haven't you seen a false vision, and haven't you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, Yahweh says; but I have not spoken?”
Isaiah 30:9
“For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh;”
Proverbs 21:6
“Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.”
2 Thessalonians 2:9
“even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,”
Jeremiah 7:4
“Don't trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these.”
2 Chronicles 18:22
“"Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you."”
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1 Kings 22:22 — “Yahweh said to him, 'How?' He said, 'I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all hi...”
Daniel 2:9 — “But if you don't make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lyi...”
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