Mentira
A mentira é condenada pela Bíblia como pecado grave. Deus é verdade, e quem mente se alinha com o pai da mentira. O cristão é chamado a falar a verdade em amor.
Deus odeia a mentira
Os lábios mentirosos são abominação para o Senhor. A Bíblia adverte que todo mentiroso terá parte no lago de fogo.
Lying lips [are] an abomination to YHWH, || And steadfast doers [are] his delight.
But to fearful, and unsteadfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part [is] in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
These six has YHWH hated, || Indeed, seven [are] abominations to His soul: High eyes, || False tongues, || And hands shedding innocent blood, A heart devising thoughts of vanity, || Feet hastening to run to evil, A false witness [who] breathes out lies, || And one sending forth contentions between brothers.
Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his practices,
Falar a verdade
Despojai-vos da mentira e falai a verdade cada um com o próximo. Cristo é a verdade, e nos chama a ser testemunhas fiéis.
For this reason, putting away the lying, each speak truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another;
Jesus says to him, "I AM the way, and the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father, if not through Me;
You are of a father—the Devil, and the desires of your father you will to do; he was a manslayer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, he speaks of his own, because he is a liar—also his father.
A false witness is not acquitted, || And whoever breathes out lies perishes.
He who is working deceit does not dwell in my house, || Whoever is speaking lies is not established before my eyes.
Consequências da falsidade
A mentira destrói confiança e relacionamentos. As Escrituras alertam sobre os frutos amargos do engano e da falsidade.
The making of treasures by a lying tongue, || [Is] a vanity driven away of those seeking death.
The lip of truth is established forever, || And a tongue of falsehood for a moment.
A lying tongue hates its bruised ones, || And a flattering mouth works an overthrow!
You destroy those speaking lies, || YHWH detests a man of blood and deceit.
You do not steal, nor feign, nor lie—each against his fellow.