Proverbs 12:22 - New Revised Standard Version

²² Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: But they that deal truly are his delight.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² Lying lips are extremely disgusting and hateful to the Lord, but they who deal faithfully are His delight. [Prov. 6:17; 11:20; Rev. 22:15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²² Lying lips are an abomination to Jehovah; But they that deal truly are his delight.

Common English Bible

²² The LORD detests false lips; he favors those who do what is true.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord. But whoever acts faithfully pleases him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord: but they that deal faithfully please him.

Proverbs 12:22 Cross References

1 Kings 13:18

Then the other said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord: Bring him back with you into your house so that he may eat food and drink water.” But he was deceiving him.

Psalm 120:2

“Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.”

Psalm 5:6

You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful.

Proverbs 11:1

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but an accurate weight is his delight.

Proverbs 11:20

Crooked minds are an abomination to the Lord, but those of blameless ways are his delight.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 17:7

Fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a ruler.

Isaiah 9:15

elders and dignitaries are the head, and prophets who teach lies are the tail;

Jeremiah 9:24

but let those who boast boast in this, that they understand and know me, that I am the Lord; I act with steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for in these things I delight, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 13:19

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death persons who should not die and keeping alive persons who should not live, by your lies to my people, who listen to lies.

Ezekiel 13:22

Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not disheartened them, and you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their wicked way and save their lives;

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the fornicators, 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.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.