There are times when it is hard for us to tell the truth. I am talking about those situations in which it's difficult to tell the truth because you don't want to hurt someone's feelings.
Lying - telling or containing lies; deliberately untruthful; deceitful; false: a lying report, deceptive, misleading, mendacious, fallacious; sham, counterfeit.
There are many ways we can lie. For example, think of those times when someone asks for your opinion on something. "What do you think?" they will say.
What does the Bible say about lying? Is lying a sin?"
The Bible is clear that lying is a sin and is displeasing to God. The first sin in this world involved a lie told to Eve.
The Ten Commandments given to Moses includes “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor” Exodus 20:16.
In the early church, Ananias and Sapphira lied regarding a donation in order to make themselves look more generous than they really were. Peter’s rebuke is stern: Acts 5:3 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?
God’s judgment was sterner: the couple died as a result of their sin of lying.
Colossians 3:9 says, “Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices.”
1 Timothy 1:9-11 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
Lying is listed as something practiced by the lawless. Furthermore, liars will be among those judged in the end.
Revelation 21:8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
In contrast, God never lies - Titus 1:2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time,
He is the source of truth. “It is impossible for God to lie” Hebrews 6:18 God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6.
He expects those who follow Him to be people of truth. The truth should be expressed in Love, offering hope to those seeking redemption from the lies of the world.
Ephesians 4:15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.
Besides if you lie, you have to live that lie, forever. People will know when you are lying and then who are you hurting? Besides, he is especially a fool who thinks to hide anything from God.
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