Found 105 Results for: Lying

• The people of Joppa committed a particularly wicked crime: they invited the Jews living among them to go aboard some boats they had lying ready, taking their wives and children. There was no hint of any intention to harm them; (2 Maccabees 12, 3)

• When the engagement was over and they were withdrawing in triumph, they recognised Nicanor, lying dead in full armour. (2 Maccabees 15, 28)

• a haughty look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, (Proverbs 6, 17)

• (Fear of Yahweh means hatred of evil.) I hate pride and arrogance, wicked behaviour and a lying mouth. (Proverbs 8, 13)

• Sincere lips endure for ever, the lying tongue lasts only a moment. (Proverbs 12, 19)

• Lying lips are abhorrent to Yahweh; dear to him those who make truth their way of life. (Proverbs 12, 22)

• The upright hates a lying word, but the wicked slanders and defames. (Proverbs 13, 5)

• To make a fortune with the help of a lying tongue: such is the idle fantasy of those who look for death. (Proverbs 21, 6)

• The lying tongue hates its victims, the wheedling mouth causes ruin. (Proverbs 26, 28)

• My love is a sachet of myrrh lying between my breasts. (Song of Solomon 1, 13)

• So beware of uttering frivolous complaints, restrain your tongue from finding fault; even what is said in secret has repercussions, and a lying mouth deals death to the soul. (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 11)

• Lying is an ugly blot on anyone, and ever on the lips of the undisciplined. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 24)