In Proverbs, chapter thirteen, verse five, a righteous person would rather experience pain by telling the truth than avoid suffering by lying. Such people know that to give in to the habit of lying is to sin against the Lord, as in Proverbs twelve, verse twenty-two. To do so will exclude them from the kingdom of God.
In Daniel three, verses sixteen through eighteen, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.” These three men not telling the truth could save them from such a punishment. However, as severe as the situation became, God was in their midst.
God is true. He is just. And those who serve Him must be the same also. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free,” as in John eight, verse thirty-two. “The lip of truth shall be established forever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment,” as in Proverbs twelve, verse nineteen.
On the other hand, those who have a habit of lying should consider John eight, verse forty-four, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and the father of it.”