²⁴ He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He said, "I am."

² David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me, Let no man know anything of the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you: and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.

²⁵ Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members one of another.

⁷ For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

⁸ Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.

¹⁶ These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

⁸ Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

²² Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, But those who do the truth are his delight.

¹⁹ Truth's lips will be established forever, But a lying tongue is only momentary.

⁵ For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.

⁷ Will you speak unrighteously for God, And talk deceitfully for him?

⁸ Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?

⁵ The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

¹⁰ Achish said, Against whom have you made a raid today? David said, Against the South of Judah, and against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.

¹³ He changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.

⁹ Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,