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11 “You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; and you shall not lie to one another.(A)

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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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Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices

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No one who practices deceit
    shall remain in my house;
no one who utters lies
    shall continue in my presence.

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15 “You shall not steal.(A)

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Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land, for everyone who has stolen, as is forbidden on one side, has gone unpunished, and everyone who has sworn falsely,[a] as is forbidden on the other side, has gone unpunished.(A) I have sent it out, says the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name, and it shall abide in that house and consume it, both timber and stones.”(B)

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  1. 5.3 The word falsely added from verse 4

By no means! Although every human is a liar, let God be proved true, as it is written,

“So that you may be justified in your words
    and you will prevail[a] when you go to trial.”(A)

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  1. 3.4 Other ancient authorities read you may prevail

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) 17 do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these are things that I hate, says the Lord.”(B)

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They bend their tongues like bows;
    they have grown strong in the land for falsehood and not for truth,
for they proceed from evil to evil,
    and they do not know me, says the Lord.(A)

Beware of your neighbors,
    and put no trust in any of your kin,
for all your kin are supplanters,
    and every neighbor goes around like a slanderer.(B)
They all deceive their neighbors,
    and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongues to speak lies;
    they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.[a](C)

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  1. 9.5 Cn Compare Gk: Heb they weary themselves with iniquity. Your dwelling

“When any of you sin and commit a trespass against the Lord by deceiving a neighbor in a matter of a deposit or a pledge or by robbery or if you have defrauded a neighbor(A) or have found something lost and lied about it—if you swear falsely regarding any of the various things that one may do and sin(B)

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But as for the cowardly, the faithless,[a] the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral,[b] the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”(A)

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  1. 21.8 Or the unbelieving
  2. 21.8 Or prostitutes

10 the sexually immoral, men who engage in illicit sex,[a] slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching(A)

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  1. 1.10 Meaning of Gk uncertain