Avoiding deceitful lips

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Colossians 3:9-10 (CEB) 9  Don't lie to each other. Take off the old human nature with its practices 10  and put on the new nature, which is renewed in knowledge by conforming to the image of the one who created it. Proverbs 25:18 (NKJV) 18  A man who bears false witness against his neighbor Is like a club, a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Zechariah 8:17 (NIV)  Do not plot evil against your neighbor, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this," declares the LORD.

Proverbs 19:5 (NIV)  A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who pours out lies will not go free.

1 Peter 3:10 (NIV) For, "Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.

All sin is a kind of lying. Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World.

 

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