Bible verses about Falsehood
Scripture references about Falsehood, organized by subject from the classic topical indexes of Orville Nave and R. A. Torrey.
Falsehood in Nave's Topical Bible
- General scriptures concerning: Ex 20:16; 23:1; Le 6:2-7; 19:11,12,16; Job 13:4; 21:34; 27:4; 31:5,6,33; 36:4; Ps 5:6,9; 10:7; 12:2,3; 28:3; 31:18; 34:13; 36:3; 50:19,20; 52:2-5; 55:21,23; 58:3; 59:12; 62:4; 63:11; 101:5,7; 109:2; 116:11; 119:29,69,163; 120:2-4; 144:8,11; Pr 2:12-15; 3:3; 6:12,13,17-19; 10:9,10,18,31; 11:9; 12:17,19,20,22; 13:5; 14:5,8,25; 17:4,7; 19:5,9,22,28; 20:17; 21:6; 26:18,19,24-26,28; 27:14; Ec 5:6; Isa 28:15; 32:7; 57:11; 59:3,4,12,13; 63:8; Jer 7:8,28; 9:3,5,6,8; 12:6; 50:36; Eze 22:9; Ho 4:1,2; Ob 1:7; Mic 6:12; Na 3:1; Zep 3:13; Mt 25:44-46; Joh 8:44,45; Eph 4:25,29; Col 3:9; 1Ti 1:9,10; 4:2; 1Pe 3:10,16; Re 21:8,27; 22:15
- See: ACCUSATION, FALSE
- See: CONSPIRACY
- See: DECEIT
- See: DECEPTION
- See: FALSE WITNESS
- See: FLATTERY
- See: HYPOCRISY
- See: PERJURY
- See: TEACHERS, FALSE
- Instances Of
- Satan
- In deceiving Eve: Ge 3:4,5
- In impugning Job's motives for being righteous: Job 1:9,10; 2:4,5
- In his false pretensions to Jesus: Mt 4:8,9; Lu 4:6,7
- Adam and Eve, in attempting to evade responsibility: Ge 3:12,13
- Cain, in denying knowledge of his brother: Ge 4:9
- Abraham, in denying that Sarah was his wife: Ge 12:11-19; 20:2
- Sarah
- To the angels, denying her derisive laugh of unbelief: Ge 18:15
- In denying to the king of Gerar, that she was Abraham's wife: Ge 20:5,16
- Isaac, denying that Rebekah was his wife: Ge 26:7-10
- Rebekah and Isaac, in the conspiracy against Esau: Ge 27:6-24,46
- Jacob's sons, in the scheme to destroy the Shechemites by first having them circumcised: Ge 34
- Joseph's brothers, in deceiving their father into a belief that Joseph was killed by wild beasts: Ge 37:29-35
- Potiphar's wife, in falsely accusing Joseph: Ge 39:14-17
- Joseph, in the deception he carried on with his brothers: Ge 42; 43; 44
- Pharaoh, in dealing deceitfully with the Israelites: Ex 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
- Aaron, in attempting to shift responsibility for the making of the golden calf: Ex 32:1-24
- Rahab, in denying that the spies were in her house: Jos 2:4-6
- 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: Jos 9
- Ehud, in pretending to carry secret messages to Eglon, king of Moab, while his real objective was to assassinate him: Jud 3:16-23
- Sisera, who instructed Jael to mislead his pursuers: Jud 4:20
- Saul, in professing to Samuel to have obeyed the commandment to destroy all spoils of the Amalekites, when in fact he had not obeyed: 1Sa 15:1-26
- In accusing Ahimelech of conspiring with David against himself: 1Sa 22:11-16
- David lied to Ahimelech, professing to have a mission from the king, in order that he might obtain provisions and armor: 1Sa 21
- David in feigning madness: 1Sa 21:13-15
- David's other deceits with the Philistines: 1Sa 27:8-12
- The falsehood of friendship to Absalom that David put in the mouth of Hushai: 2Sa 15:34-37
- Michal, in the false statement that David was sick, in order to save him from Saul's violence: 1Sa 19:12-17
- The Amalekite who claimed to have killed Saul: 2Sa 1:10-12
- Hushai
- In false professions to Absalom: 2Sa 16:16-19
- In his deceitful counsel to Absalom: 2Sa 17:7-14
- The wife of the Bahurimite who saved the lives of Hushai's messengers, sent to apprise David of the movements of Absalom's army: 2Sa 17:15-22
- The murder, under false pretense
- Of Adonijah: 1Ki 2:23
- Of Shimei: 1Ki 2:42,43
- Of Jeroboam's wife: 1Ki 14:2
- The old prophet of Beth-el who misguided the prophet of Judah: 1Ki 13:11-22
- Jeroboam's wife, feigning herself to be another woman: 1Ki 14:5-7
- The conspirators against Naboth: 1Ki 21:7-13
- Gehazi, when he ran after Naaman, and misrepresented that Elisha wanted a talent of silver and two changes of clothes: 2Ki 5:20-24
- 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: 2Ki 8:7-15
- Jehu lied to the worshipers of Baal in order to gain the advantage over them and destroy them: 2Ki 10:18-28
- Zedekiah, in violating his oath of allegiance to Nebuchadnezzer: 2Ch 36:13; Eze 16:59; 17:15-20
- Samaritans, in their efforts to hinder the rebuilding of the temple at Jerusalem: Ezr 4
- Sanballat in trying to obstruct the rebuilding of Jerusalem: Ne 6
- Haman, in his conspiracy against the Jews: Es 3:8
- Jeremiah's adversaries, in accusing him of joining the Chaldeans: Jer 37:13-15
- Princes of Israel, when they went to Jeremiah for a vision from the Lord: Jer 42:20
- Herod the Great, to the wise men, in professing to desire to worship Jesus: Mt 2:8
- Jewish leaders
- In falsely accusing Jesus of being gluttonous and a winebibber (a wino): Mt 11:19
- In refusing to bear truthful testimony concerning John the Baptist: Mt 21:24-27
- Falsely accusing Jesus of blasphemy, when he forgave sin: Mt 9:2-6; Mr 2:7; Lu 5:21
- And when Jesus announced that he was the Son of God: Mt 26:65; Mr 14:64; Joh 10:33-38
- Peter, in denying Jesus: Mt 26:69-75; Mr 14:68-71; Lu 22:56-62; Joh 18:25-27
- The Roman soldiers, who said the disciples stole the body of Jesus: Mt 28:13,15
- The disobedient son, who promised to work in the vineyard, but did not: Mt 21:30
- Ananias and Sapphira falsely state that they had sold their land for a given sum: Ac 5:1-10
- Stephen's accusers, who falsely accused him of blaspheming Moses and God: Ac 6:11-14
- Paul's traducers, falsely accusing him of treason to Caesar: Ac 16:20,21; 17:5-7; 24:5; 25:7,8
- The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies: Tit 1:12
- See: ACCUSATION, FALSE
- See: CONSPIRACY
- See: FALSE WITNESS
- See: HYPOCRISY
- See: PERJURY
- See: TEACHERS, FALSE