Proverbs 13:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

Proverbs 13:5 —

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Colossians 3:9
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Psalms 119:163
I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Ezekiel 20:43
And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
Ezekiel 36:31
Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

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Believer Children of God Christian Deceit Deception Depravity of Man Disciple False Teachers

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5)

Note, 1. Where grace reigns sin is loathsome. It is the undoubted character of every righteous man that he hates lying (that is, all sin, for every sin is a lie, and particularly all fraud and falsehood in commerce and conversation), not only that he will not tell a lie, but he abhors lying, from a rooted reigning principle of love to truth and justice, and conformity to God. 2. Where sin reigns t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. loathsome ... shame--better, causeth shame and reproach (compare Pr 19:26), by slander, &c., which the righteous hates.