Verb pseudomai (to lie) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

5: 11"Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely [lying (pseudomai)] on my account.

Acts

5: 3"Ananias," Peter asked, "why has Satan filled your heart to lie (pseudomai) to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the proceeds of the land?
5: 4While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, were not the proceeds at your disposal? How is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You did not lie (pseudomai) to us but to God!"

1 John

1: 6If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie (pseudomai) and do not do what is true;