Lying Tongue

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

• Deceit

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

• Heart

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellers of peace is joy. There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief. Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

• Loathsome
• Character

A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

• Heart
• Slander

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.