Verse 5

A righteous man hates lying, but a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:35 : 35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the legacy of fools.
  • Col 3:9 : 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its deeds.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
  • Ps 119:163 : 163 I hate and abhor lying, but I love Your law.
  • Prov 6:17 : 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
  • Prov 30:8 : 8 Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
  • Ezek 6:9 : 9 And those of you who escape shall remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I am grieved by their adulterous heart, which has departed from me, and by their eyes, which go lusting after their idols; and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
  • Ezek 20:43 : 43 And there you shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have been defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.
  • Ezek 36:31 : 31 Then you shall remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
  • Dan 12:2 : 2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 I also cut off three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Therefore, putting away lying, let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.