Lying Commanded, Approved, and Sanctioned.
And the Lord said unto Samuel, ... I will send thee to Jesse, the Bethlemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons. And Samuel said, How can I go? If Saul hear it he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take a heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord. ([1 Sam. 16 : 1, 2].)
And the woman [Rahab] took the two men and hid them and said thus: There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were; and it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; whither the men went I wot not; pursue after them quickly, for ye shall overtake them. But she had brought them up to the roof of the house and hid them with the stalks of flax. ([Josh. 2 : 4, 5, 6].)
Was not Rahab, the harlot, justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had them sent out another way? ([James 2 : 25].)
And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive? And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them. Therefore God dealt well with the midwives. ([Ex. 1 : 18–20].)
And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him ... I will go forth and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him and prevail also; go forth and do so. ([1 Kings 22 : 21, 22].)
Ye shall know my breach of promise. ([Num. 14 : 34].)
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner? ([Rom. 3 : 7].)
Being crafty, I caught you with guile. ([2 Cor. 12 : 16].)