Proverbs 24:28

The book of Proverbs gives us insights into so many different areas of life. The book gives us instruction on how to live our lives for God. Here is a proverb that gives us insight about truth and lies:

Proverbs 24:28 (ESV)

Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause,

and do not deceive with your lips.

Perhaps the worse thing we can do to someone is to lie for the purpose of hurting someone.   One of the large themes of Proverbs is that of truth.   God is truth and therefore we are to walk in truth.  In Ephesians 4:25 we are told to speak the truth, in love.  We are not only to speak the truth to each other, the later part of this proverb instructs us not to use our lips even to deceive.   We are not to be deceptive in our very nature.   You can't use your lips to lead others astray.  Remember, Satan in the garden never actually told a bold faced lie.   He simply used information to deceive.  When we use information to bring about deception we damage them and we damage ourselves.   In the below proverb we read that when we deceive others we are like a club, a sword and an arrow to them.    

Proverbs 25:18 (ESV Strong's)

A man who bears false witness against his neighbor

is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.

When I read this proverb I think of the way politicians damage their constituents with "deceptive" lies.   They don't use bold face lies.  They use spin.  They use deception to promote themselves.   They use deceit to gain their power.   They use lies to get what they want and damn the rest.  That is not truth.  God is truth.