Proverbs 12:22

New International Version

The Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:18

The old prophet answered, “I too am a prophet, as you are. And an angel said to me by the word of the Lord: ‘Bring him back with you to your house so that he may eat bread and drink water.’ ” (But he was lying to him.)

Psalm 120:2

Save me, Lord, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.

Psalm 5:6

you destroy those who tell lies. The bloodthirsty and deceitful you, Lord, detest.

Proverbs 11:1

The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with him.

Proverbs 11:20

The Lord detests those whose hearts are perverse, but he delights in those whose ways are blameless.

Proverbs 15:8

The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.

Proverbs 17:7

Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool— how much worse lying lips to a ruler!

Isaiah 9:15

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

Jeremiah 9:24

but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,” declares the Lord.

Ezekiel 13:19

You have profaned me among my people for a few handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to my people, who listen to lies, you have killed those who should not have died and have spared those who should not live.

Ezekiel 13:22

Because you disheartened the righteous with your lies, when I had brought them no grief, and because you encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways and so save their lives,

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.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.