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Bible Questions Answered:
“I
went to my sons commencement and the speaker went on for some time,
talking about people lying and not telling the truth. Should this
have been their kind of talk?...”
Walter/
Breckenridge/ Texas
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
If we live in a world that is becoming more and more dishonest, yes
that is something that is very important, to be discussed.
Psalm
12:1-8 NLT
1 Help, O Lord, for the godly are
fast disappearing! The faithful have vanished from the earth!
2 Neighbors lie to each other,
speaking with flattering lips and deceitful hearts.
3 May The Lord cut off their
flattering lips and silence their boastful tongues.
4 They say, “We will lie to our
hearts’ content. Our lips are our own—who can stop us?”
5 The Lord replies, “I have seen
violence done to the helpless, and I have heard the groans of the
poor. Now I will rise up to rescue them, as they have longed for Me
to do.”
6 The Lord’s promises are pure,
like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over.
7 Therefore, Lord, we know you will
protect the oppressed, preserving them forever from this lying
generation,
8 even though the wicked strut
about, and evil is praised throughout the land.
What was it Jesus said....
John
14:6 KJV
Jesus
saith unto him, I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life: no man
cometh unto The Father, but by Me.
II Corinthians 8:21 KJV (The Apostle Paul)
Providing
for honest things, not only in the sight of The Lord, but also
in the sight of men.
Psalm
36:1,2 NLT
1 Sin whispers to the
wicked, deep within their hearts. They have no fear of God at all.
2 In their blind
conceit they cannot see how wicked they really are.
Dishonesty/
Honesty:
Exodus
20:16 NLT
“You
must not testify falsely against your neighbor.
Leviticus
19:35,36 NLT
35
“Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight, or
volume.
36
Your scales and weights must be accurate. Your containers for
measuring dry materials or liquids must be accurate.
I
am The Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Psalm
37:21 KJV
The
wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth
mercy, and giveth.
Psalm
63:11 KJV
But the king shall rejoice in God;
every one that sweareth by Him shall glory: but the mouth of them
that speak lies shall be stopped.
Psalm
101:7 KJV
He
that worketh deceit shall not dwell within My house: he that telleth
lies shall not tarry in My sight.
Proverbs
6:16-19 NLT
16
There are six things The Lord hates— no, seven things He detests:
17
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent,
18
a heart that plots evil, feet that race to do wrong,
19
a false witness who pours out lies, a person who sows discord in a
family.
Proverbs
10:9 NLT
People
with integrity walk safely, but those who follow crooked paths will
be exposed.
Proverbs
11:1,3 NLT
1
The Lord detests the use of dishonest scales, but He delights in
accurate weights.
3
Honesty guides good people; dishonesty destroys treacherous people.
Proverbs
12:5,19,22 KJV
5
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the
wicked are deceit.
19
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is
but for a moment.
22
Lying lips are abomination to The Lord: but they that deal truly are
His delight.
Proverbs
13:5 KJV
A righteous man hateth
lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
Proverbs
14:5,25 KJV
5 A faithful
witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
25
A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh
lies.
Proverbs
19:5,9 KJV
5
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies
shall not escape.
9
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies
shall perish.
Proverbs
20:10,14,17,23 NLT
10
False weights and unequal measures— The Lord detests double
standards of every kind.
14
The buyer haggles over the price, saying, “It’s worthless,”
then brags about getting a bargain!
17
Stolen bread tastes sweet, but it turns to gravel in the mouth.
23
The Lord detests double standards; He is not pleased by dishonest
scales.
Isaiah
32:7 NLT
The
smooth tricks of scoundrels are evil. They plot crooked schemes. They
lie to convict the poor, even when the cause of the poor is just.
Jeremiah
9:4-6 NLT
4
“Beware of your neighbor! Don’t even trust your brother! For
brother takes advantage of brother, and friend slanders friend.
5
They all fool and defraud each other; no one tells The Truth. With
practiced tongues they tell lies; they wear themselves out with all
their sinning.
6
They pile lie upon lie and utterly refuse to acknowledge me,” says
The Lord.
Jeremiah
22:13 NLT
And
The Lord says, “What sorrow awaits Jehoiakim, who builds his palace
with forced labor. He builds injustice into its walls, for he makes
his neighbors work for nothing. He does not pay them for their
labor.
Micah
6:10-12 NLT
10
What shall I say about the homes of the wicked filled with treasures
gained by cheating? What about the disgusting practice of measuring
out grain with dishonest measures?
11
How can I tolerate your merchants who use dishonest scales and
weights?
12
The rich among you have become wealthy through extortion and
violence. Your citizens are so used to lying that their tongues can
no longer tell The Truth.
Nahum
3:1 KJV
What
sorrow awaits Nineveh, the city of murder and lies! She is crammed
with wealth and is never without victims.
Zechariah
5:4 NLT
And
this is what The Lord Of Heaven’s Armies says: I am sending this
curse into the house of every thief and into the house of everyone
who swears falsely using My name. And My curse will remain in that
house and completely destroy it—even its timbers and stones.”
Matthew
5:33-37 KJV
33
Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou
shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto The Lord thine
oaths:
34
But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is
God's throne:
35
Nor by the earth; for it is His footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for
it is the city of The Great King.
36
Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one
hair white or black.
37
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is
more than these cometh of evil.
Matthew
6:1,2 KJV
1
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them:
otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
2
Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before
thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that
they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their
reward.
Matthew
7:12,21-23 KJV
12
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,
do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
21
Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father which is
in heaven.
22
Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied
in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name
done many wonderful works?
23
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from Me,
ye that work iniquity.
Luke
10:25-28 KJV
25
And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted Him, saying,
Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
26
He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
27
And he answering said, Thou shalt love The Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all
thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.
28
And He said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou
shalt live.
Luke
16:10-12 NLT
10
“If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in
large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be
honest with greater responsibilities.
11
And if you are untrustworthy about worldly wealth, who will trust you
with the true riches of heaven?
12
And if you are not faithful with other people’s things, why should
you be trusted with things of your own?
Luke
18:9-14 KJV
9
And He spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves
that they were righteous, and despised others:
10
Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the
other a publican.
11
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee,
that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or
even as this publican.
12
I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
13
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his
eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful
to me a sinner.
14
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the
other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he
that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
John
8:43-47 KJV
43
Why do ye not understand My speech? even because ye cannot hear My
Word.
44
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.
45
And because I tell you The Truth, ye believe Me not.
46
Which of you convinceth Me of sin? And if I say The Truth, why do ye
not believe Me?
47
He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not,
because ye are not of God.
John
12:4-6 KJV
4
Then saith one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which
should betray Him,
5
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to
the poor?
6
This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a
thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Acts
5:4 KJV
"... thou hast not lied unto
men, but unto God."
Romans
3:13 KJV
Their throat is an open sepulchre;
with their tongues they have used
deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Romans
12:2 KJV
And
be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing
of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable,
and perfect, will of God.
Romans
13:8-10 KJV
8
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth
another hath fulfilled the law.
9
For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou
shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not
covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly
comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself.
10
Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling
of the law.
Ephesians
4:15,25 KJV
15
But speaking The Truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things,
which is The Head, even Christ:
25
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his
neighbor: for we are members one of another.
Philippians
4:8,9 KJV
8
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are
honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report;
if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these
things.
9
Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard,
and seen in me, do: and
The
God Of Peace shall be with you.
Colossians
3:9,10 NLT
9
Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful
nature and all its wicked deeds.
10
Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your
Creator and become like Him.
I
Thessalonians 4:11 KJV
Make
it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and
working with your hands, just as we instructed you before.
I
Thessalonians 5:22 KJV
Abstain
from all appearance of evil.
I
Timothy 1:9-11 NLT
9 For the law was not intended for
people who do what is right. It is for people who are lawless and
rebellious, who are ungodly and sinful, who consider nothing sacred
and defile what is holy, who kill their father or mother or commit
other murders.
10 The law is for people who are
sexually immoral, or who practice homosexuality, or are slave
traders, liars, promise
breakers, or who do anything else that contradicts the wholesome
teaching
11 that comes from the glorious Good
News entrusted to me by our blessed God.
I Timothy 4:1,2
KJV
1 Now The Spirit speaketh expressly,
that in the latter times some
shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and
doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy;
having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Titus
1:2 KJV
In
hope of eternal Life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the
world began;
Hebrews
13:18 NLT
Pray
for us, for our conscience is clear and we want to live honorably in
everything we do.
James
5:12 KJV
But
above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither
by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and
your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
I
Peter 2:1 NLT
So
get rid of all evil behavior. Be done with all deceit, hypocrisy,
jealousy, and all unkind speech.
I
John 2:20-23 KJV
20 But ye have an unction from The
Holy One, and ye know all things.
21 I have not written unto you
because ye know not The Truth, but because ye know it, and that no
lie is of The Truth.
22 Who is a liar but he that
denieth that Jesus is The Christ? He is Anti-Christ, that denieth
The Father and The Son.
23 Whosoever denieth The Son, the
same hath not The Father: he that acknowledgeth The Son hath
The Father also.
I John 4:20 KJV
If a man say, I love God, and hateth
his brother, he is a liar:
for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love
God whom he hath not seen?
Revelation
21:8,27 NLT
8
“But cowards, unbelievers, the corrupt, murderers, the immoral,
those who practice witchcraft, idol worshipers, and all liars—their
fate is in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second
death.”
27
Nothing evil will be allowed to enter, nor anyone who practices
shameful idolatry and dishonesty—but only those whose names are
written in The Lamb’s Book Of Life.
Revelation
22:15 KJV
For
without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whore mongers, and murderers,
and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
I
John 5:19 KJV
And
we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in
wickedness.
In an evil world, let us be sure we are living for
The Lord!
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Prayer:
Romans 6:23 KJV
“For the wages of sin is death;
but The Gift Of God is Eternal Life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Romans
10:9, 10 KJV9 That if
thou shalt confess with thy mouth The Lord Jesus, and shalt believe
in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be
saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto Salvation.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto Salvation.
