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.
An abomination to Jehovah [are] lying lips, And stedfast doers [are] his delight.
and to fearful, and unstedfast, 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 a second death.’
These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven [are] abominations to His soul.
Eyes high — tongues false — And hands shedding innocent blood —
A heart devising thoughts of vanity — Feet hasting to run to evil —
A false witness [who] doth breathe out lies — And one sending forth contentions between brethren.
Lie not one to 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.
Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;
Jesus saith to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
‘Ye are of a father — the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a manslayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar — also his father.
A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.
He dwelleth not in my house who is working deceit, Whoso is speaking lies Is not established before mine 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 for ever, And for a moment — a tongue of falsehood.
A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!
Thou destroyest those speaking lies, A man of blood and deceit Jehovah doth abominate.
‘Ye do not steal, nor feign, nor lie one against his fellow.