Genesis 27:24
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24 He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He answered, “I am.”
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Colossians 3:9
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9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices
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Ephesians 4:25
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Rules for the New Life
25 So then, putting away falsehood, let each of you speak the truth with your neighbor, for we are members of one another.(A)
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Romans 3:7-8
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7 But if through my falsehood God’s truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being judged as a sinner? 8 And why not say (as some people slander us by saying that we say), “Let us do evil so that good may come”? Their judgment is deserved!(A)
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Zechariah 8:16
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16 These are the things that you shall do: speak the truth to one another, render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace,(A)
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Proverbs 30:8
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8 Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
give me neither poverty nor riches;
feed me with the food that I need,(A)
Proverbs 12:22
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22 Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,
but those who act faithfully are his delight.(A)
Proverbs 12:19
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19 Truthful lips endure forever,
but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.(A)
Job 15:5
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5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
and you choose the tongue of the crafty.(A)
Job 13:7-8
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7 Will you speak falsely for God
and speak deceitfully for him?
8 Will you show partiality toward him;
will you plead the case for God?
1 Samuel 27:10
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10 When Achish asked, “Against whom[a] have you made a raid today?” David would say, “Against the Negeb of Judah,” or “Against the Negeb of the Jerahmeelites,” or “Against the Negeb of the Kenites.”(A)
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- 27.10 Q ms Gk Vg: MT lacks whom
1 Samuel 21:13
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13 So he changed his behavior before them; he pretended to be mad when in their presence.[a] He scratched marks on the doors of the gate and let his spittle run down his beard.
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- 21.13 Heb in their hands
1 Samuel 21:2
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2 David said to the priest Ahimelech, “The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘No one must know anything of the matter about which I send you and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment[a] with the young men for such and such a place.
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- 21.2 Q ms Vg: Meaning of MT uncertain
2 Samuel 14:5
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5 The king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.(A)
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