A Lying Tongue

The Tongue

This proverb names a specific, comprehensive list of things God genuinely hates, worth noticing that a lying tongue and a false witness both appear within it, worth holding as sober, direct naming, speech-related sins listed alongside genuinely severe others, not treated as minor by comparison.

This is worth examining against however much lying, particularly small, seemingly harmless lies, has been minimized in your own mind, rather than this verse’s own direct claim, God’s own genuine hatred, worth taking with real seriousness rather than assumed to be reserved only for more dramatic, obvious falsehood.

Notice he that soweth discord among brethren, also named within this same list, worth holding alongside lying directly, both connected as genuinely, similarly serious in God’s own accounting, worth examining whether either pattern has characterized your own speech more than you have previously, honestly acknowledged.

Consider today whether lying, even small lies, or sowing discord has genuinely characterized your own speech, and receive this list’s own sober, direct naming as worth real, personal examination, not minimized as lesser sins simply because they involve only words rather than more visibly dramatic action.