A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.

God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”

To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.

Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.

Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.

For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech. They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it.”

If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.

Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.

‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’

Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips.

Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out.

Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips and spreads slander is a fool.

The lips of the righteous know what finds favor, but the mouth of the wicked only what is perverse.

The Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy.

An honest witness does not deceive, but a false witness pours out lies.

The soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.

Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool— how much worse lying lips to a ruler!

Save me, Lord, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.

The one whose walk is blameless, who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from their heart; whose tongue utters no slander, who does no wrong to a neighbor, and casts no slur on others.