my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
Will you speak falsely for God and speak deceitfully for him?
though there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?”
My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.
in spite of being right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
“But now, be pleased to look at me, for I will not lie to your face.
though you do not know him. But I know him; if I would say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I keep his word.
As the truth of Christ is in me, this boast of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.