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Proverbs 14:5

Proverbs 14:5 ESV A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+14%3A5&version=ESV]   This proverb seems like a set of two truisms everybody already understood, but it highlights an important truth: people, even in the most important circumstances (especially in those circumstances), lie. Sometimes this lying seems inconsequential, like whether…