Nave’s Topical Bible
Falsehood
148 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- General scriptures concerning
Exodus 20:16; Exodus 23:1; Leviticus 6:2-7; Leviticus 19:11-12,16; Job 13:4; Job 21:34; Job 27:4; Job 31:5-6,33; Job 36:4; Psalms 5:6,9; Psalms 10:7; Psalms 12:2-3; Psalms 28:3; Psalms 31:18; Psalms 34:13; Psalms 36:3; Psalms 50:19-20; Psalms 52:2-5; Psalms 55:21,23; Psalms 58:3; Psalms 59:12; Psalms 62:4; Psalms 63:11; Psalms 101:5,7; Psalms 109:2; Psalms 116:11; Psalms 119:29,69,163; Psalms 120:2-4; Psalms 144:8,11; Proverbs 2:12-15; Proverbs 3:3; Proverbs 6:12-13,17-19; Proverbs 10:9-10,18,31; Proverbs 11:9; Proverbs 12:17,19-20,22; Proverbs 13:5; Proverbs 14:5,8,25; Proverbs 17:4,7; Proverbs 19:5,9,22,28; Proverbs 20:17; Proverbs 21:6; Proverbs 26:18-19,24-26,28; Proverbs 27:14; Ecclesiastes 5:6; Isaiah 28:15; Isaiah 32:7; Isaiah 57:11; Isaiah 59:3-4,12-13; Isaiah 63:8; Jeremiah 7:8,28; Jeremiah 9:3,5-6,8; Jeremiah 12:6; Jeremiah 50:36; Ezekiel 22:9; Hosea 4:1-2; Obadiah 1:7; Micah 6:12; Nahum 3:1; Zephaniah 3:13; Matthew 25:44-46; John 8:44-45; Ephesians 4:25,29; Colossians 3:9; 1 Timothy 1:9-10; 1 Timothy 4:2; 1 Peter 3:10,16; Revelation 21:8,27; Revelation 22:15
See CONSPIRACY
See DECEIT
See DECEPTION
See FALSE WITESS
See FLATTERY
See HYPOCRISY
See PERJURY
See TEACHERS, FALSE
- INSTANCES OF
- Satan
- In deceiving Eve
- In impugning Job's motives for being righteous
- In his false pretensions to Jesus
- Adam and Eve, in attempting to evade responsibility
- Cain, in denying knowledge of his brother
- Abraham, in denying that Sarah was his wife
- Sarah
- To the angels, denying her derisive laugh of unbelief
- In denying to the king of Gerar, that she was Abraham's wife
- Isaac, denying that Rebekah was his wife
- Rebekah and Isaac, in the conspiracy against Esau
- Jacob's sons, in the scheme to destroy the Shechemites by First having them circumcised
- Joseph's brothers, in deceiving their father into a belief That Joseph was killed by wild beasts
- Potiphar's wife, in falsely accusing Joseph
- Joseph, in the deception he carried on with his brothers
- Pharaoh, in dealing deceitfully with the Israelites
Exodus 7; Exodus 8; Exodus 9; Exodus 10; Exodus 11; Exodus 12
- Aaron, in attempting to shift responsibility for the making Of the golden calf
- Rahab, in denying that the spies were in her house
- The Gibeonites, ambassadors, in the deception they Perpetrated upon Joshua and the elders of Israel in leading Them to believe that they came from a distant region, when In fact they lived in the immediate vicinity
- Ehud, in pretending to carry secret messages to Eglon, king Of Moab, while his real objective was to assassinate him
- Sisera, who instructed Jael to mislead his pursuers
- Saul, in professing to Samuel to have obeyed the commandment To destroy all spoils of the Amalekites, when in fact he had Not obeyed
- In accusing Ahimelech of conspiring with David against Himself
- David lied to Ahimelech, professing to have a mission from The king, in order that he might obtain provisions and armor
- David in feigning madness
- David's other deceits with the Philistines
- The falsehood of friendship to Absalom that David put in the Mouth of Hushai
- Michal, in the false statement that David was sick, in order To save him from Saul's violence
- The Amalekite who claimed to have killed Saul
- Hushai
- In false professions to Absalom
- In his deceitful counsel to Absalom
- The wife of the Bahurimite who saved the lives of Hushai's Messengers, sent to apprise David of the movements of Absalom's army
- The murder, under false pretense
- Of Adonijah
- Of Shimei
- Of Jeroboam's wife
- The old prophet of Beth-el who misguided the prophet of Judah
- Jeroboam's wife, feigning herself to be another woman
- The conspirators against Naboth
- Gehazi, when he ran after Naaman, and misrepresented that Elisha wanted a talent of silver and two changes of clothes
- Hazael, servant of the king of Syria, lied to the king in Misstating the prophet Elisha's message with regard to the King's recovery
- Jehu lied to the worshipers of Baal in order to gain the Advantage over them and destroy them
- Zedekiah, in violating his oath of allegiance to Nebuchadnezzer
- Samaritans, in their efforts to hinder the rebuilding of the Temple at Jerusalem
- Sanballat in trying to obstruct the rebuilding of Jerusalem
- Haman, in his conspiracy against the Jews
- Jeremiah's adversaries, in accusing him of joining the Chaldeans
- Princes of Israel, when they went to Jeremiah for a vision From the Lord
- Herod the Great, to the wise men, in professing to desire to Worship Jesus
- Jewish leaders
- In falsely accusing Jesus of being gluttonous and a Winebibber (a wino)
- In refusing to bear truthful testimony concerning John the Baptist
- Falsely accusing Jesus of blasphemy, when he forgave sin
- And when Jesus announced that he was the Son of God
- Peter, in denying Jesus
Matthew 26:69-75; Mark 14:68-71; Luke 22:56-62; John 18:25-27
- The Roman soldiers, who said the disciples stole the body of Jesus
- The disobedient son, who promised to work in the vineyard, But did not
- Ananias and Sapphira falsely state that they had sold their Land for a given sum
- Stephen's accusers, who falsely accused him of blaspheming Moses and God
- Paul's traducers, falsely accusing him of treason to Caesar
- The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies
See CONSPIRACY
See FALSE WITESS
See HYPOCRISY
See PERJURY
See TEACHERS, FALSE
- Satan
Bible verses about “Falsehood”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Exodus 20:16Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
- Exodus 23:1Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
- Leviticus 6:2If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
- Leviticus 6:3Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
- Leviticus 6:4Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
- Leviticus 6:5Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
- Leviticus 6:6And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:
- Leviticus 6:7And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.
- Leviticus 19:11Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
- Leviticus 19:12And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.
- Leviticus 19:16Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord.
- Job 13:4But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
- Job 21:34How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
- Job 27:4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
- Job 31:5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
- Job 31:6Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
- Job 31:33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
- Job 36:4For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
- Psalms 5:6Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
- Psalms 5:9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
- Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- Psalms 12:2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
- Psalms 12:3The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
- Psalms 28:3Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
- Psalms 31:18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
- Psalms 34:13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
- Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
- Psalms 50:19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
- Psalms 50:20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
- Psalms 52:2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
- Psalms 52:3Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
- Psalms 52:4Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
- Psalms 52:5God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
- Psalms 55:21The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
- Psalms 55:23But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
- Psalms 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
- Psalms 59:12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
- Psalms 62:4They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
- Psalms 63:11But 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.
- Psalms 101:5Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.