{"number":83,"title":null,"part":null,"questions":[83],"paragraphs":[],"clauses":[],"items":[{"question":"Is lying a great sin?","answer":"Yes. Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,","proofs":["Proverbs 12:22"],"refs":[{"printed":"Proverbs 12:22","osis":["Prov.12.22"]}],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"Is it a sin that makes us like the devil?","answer":"Yes. For when he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"For when he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own,","proofs":["John 8:44"],"refs":[{"printed":"John 8:44","osis":["John.8.44"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Is it an unprofitable sin?","answer":"Yes. The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death,","proofs":["Proverbs 21:6"],"refs":[{"printed":"Proverbs 21:6","osis":["Prov.21.6"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Is it a sin that will be detected?","answer":"Yes. For a lying tongue is but fora moment,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"For a lying tongue is but fora moment,","proofs":["Proverbs 12:19"],"refs":[{"printed":"Proverbs 12:19","osis":["Prov.12.19"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"And severely punished?","answer":"Yes. For without are dogs, and whoso loveth and maketh a lie,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"For without are dogs, and whoso loveth and maketh a lie,","proofs":["Revelation 22:15"],"refs":[{"printed":"Revelation 22:15","osis":["Rev.22.15"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Should we therefore hate it?","answer":"Yes. I abhor lying,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"I abhor lying,","proofs":["Psalm 119:163"],"refs":[{"printed":"Psalm 119:163","osis":["Ps.119.163"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"And pray against it?","answer":"Yes. Remove from me the way of lying,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"Remove from me the way of lying,","proofs":["Psalm 119:29"],"refs":[{"printed":"Psalm 119:29","osis":["Ps.119.29"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]}]},{"question":"May we tell lies to make sport?","answer":"No. They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies,","segments":[{"text":"No.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies,","proofs":["Hosea 7:3"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hosea 7:3","osis":["Hos.7.3"]}],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"Or to excuse a fault?","answer":"No. As Gehazi, who said, thy servant went no whither,","segments":[{"text":"No.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"As Gehazi, who said, thy servant went no whither,","proofs":["2 Kings 5:25"],"refs":[{"printed":"2 Kings 5:25","osis":["2Kgs.5.25"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Or with an intention to do good?","answer":"No. We must not do evil that good may come,","segments":[{"text":"No.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"We must not do evil that good may come,","proofs":["Romans 3:8"],"refs":[{"printed":"Romans 3:8","osis":["Rom.3.8"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]}]},{"question":"Is detraction and slander a sin?","answer":"Yes. Thou sittest and slanderest thine own mother’s","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"Thou sittest and slanderest thine own mother’s","proofs":["Psalm 50:20"],"refs":[{"printed":"Psalm 50:20","osis":["Ps.50.20"]}],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"But may we not return slander for slander?","answer":"No. Render not railing for railing,","segments":[{"text":"No.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"Render not railing for railing,","proofs":["1 Peter 3:9"],"refs":[{"printed":"1 Peter 3:9","osis":["1Pet.3.9"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Is flattery also a sin?","answer":"Yes. They speak vanity every one with his neighbour, with flattering lips and a double heart do they speak,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"They speak vanity every one with his neighbour, with flattering lips and a double heart do they speak,","proofs":["Psalm 12:2"],"refs":[{"printed":"Psalm 12:2","osis":["Ps.12.2"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Is self detraction a sin?","answer":"Yes. There is that maketh himself poor and yet hath great riches,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"There is that maketh himself poor and yet hath great riches,","proofs":["Proverbs 13:7"],"refs":[{"printed":"Proverbs 13:7","osis":["Prov.13.7"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"And self-flattery?","answer":"Yes. There is that maketh himself rich, and yet hath nothing,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"There is that maketh himself rich, and yet hath nothing,","proofs":["Proverbs 13:7"],"refs":[{"printed":"Proverbs 13:7","osis":["Prov.13.7"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]}]},{"question":"Doth this commandment forbid perjury?","answer":"Yes. I will be a swift witness against false swearers,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"I will be a swift witness against false swearers,","proofs":["Malachi 3:5"],"refs":[{"printed":"Malachi 3:5","osis":["Mal.3.5"]}],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"And subornation?","answer":"Yes. Thus the Jews set up false witnesses against Stephen,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"Thus the Jews set up false witnesses against Stephen,","proofs":["Acts 6:11, 13"],"refs":[{"printed":"Acts 6:11, 13","osis":["Acts.6.11","Acts.6.13"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"And backbiting and talebearing?","answer":"Yes. Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people,","proofs":["Leviticus 19:16"],"refs":[{"printed":"Leviticus 19:16","osis":["Lev.19.16"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"And all censorious and uncharitable reflections?","answer":"Yes. For he that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judgeth the law,","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"For he that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judgeth the law,","proofs":["James 4:11"],"refs":[{"printed":"James 4:11","osis":["Jas.4.11"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]}]}],"text":null}