Some people just cannot discern what is right and what is not right. Because of this they become known as “pathological” liars. But, the Lord Jesus will set anyone of us free from this malady. We can come through to the place where we love the truth, live in the truth, and always speak the truth. In all of this, we can become, just simply, true.

Paul said it in a very straightforward way in Colossians 3:9-11—

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds (his practices);and have put on the new man, which is renewed  (being made into someone entirely new) in knowledge (epig’nosis, acknowledgment) after the image of Him that created Him (according to the image of the Father Who created Jesus): where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision (Jew nor Gentile), Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

The above is rather complex, but it is wonderfully compelling as it draws us on into who God created us to be in the first place. This is so for every kind of person, everywhere, who will give themselves to the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

One reason it is so important that we give up lying is that the serpent came into the Garden lying, and thus deceived our Parents. What tragic consequences followed in the trail of that liar! We give up lying because, according to John 8:44, it is the devil’s native language. These are words Jesus spoke to the religious people who were themselves impure.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie (literally, “the lie”), he speaketh of his own (of his own things; his own native language): for he is a liar, and the father of it.

If the devil is the father of lies, then let us renounce it once for all.

FATHER, I renounce all lying. Even when it seems the “best thing to do.” I can see now that there is never any reason to lie. Forgive me for the times that I felt it was all right to tell even a “little white lie.” I know there is no such thing. Give me a deep love for truth. Enable me to always speak the truth, live the truth, and represent Your Kingdom in truth.

Four significant verses, as they occur in the Greek New Testament, speak of “the lie.”
They refer to that lie of the serpent.
—John 8:44, Romans 1:25; Ephesians 4:25 and II Thessalonians 2:11