Prior Book | Prior Chapter | Prior Verse | Next Verse | Next Chapter | Next Book | Viewing NASB and Amplified 2015 | |
NASB | Colossians 3:9 Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Colossians 3:9 Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old self with its evil practices, |
Bible Question: is it ok to lie i told a guy at work that you can tell a lie if your motives are right and if its out of the purness of love but God knows if u tell a lie like Abraham that his wife was his sister or like king David when he and the people with him ate the shew bread someone please shed some light on this because i think ive got the right spirit |
Bible Answer: walkforchrist Revelation 21:8 "But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death." We should not lie. I have heard arguments about this like; Rahab the Harlot lied and it was suppossedly accounted to her for righteousness. I dunno, her hiding the spies in peace was counted as righteous, but the Bible does not say the lying was. I have heard the ridiculous argument that Exodus 20:16 only refers to that you should not lie against your neighbor, but that it is okay to lie if you think it would make things better. Consider this problem though; in Natzi Germany if some of those Germans had not lied about hiding some of those Jews that would not have been a good thing. So if we say that it is right when it protects a life, what are we to think really? If someone wips out a gun and says they are looking for so and so, and you don't lie to protect them is that good? The problem with thinking it is all right because you want to save a life is the Bible is clear that lying is out. But some say, choose the lesser evil, being trouble with God for lying to save a life, over telling the truth and being partially repsonsible for their death. Then there are sins of ommission, where we lie by leaving part out and think it isn't lying for real. If it was me, just speaking for myself, I would lie to save a life, but not to fix every day problems big or small. Although I am quite sure I have been guilty of it anyhow. When we stand to lose something do we trust God to have our backs and fix things? Or do we lie? Question; what is a "right motive" for lying? blessings abound, bowler |