Ezekiel 13:19 · World English Bible
You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’
Look at the price of the betrayal. Handfuls of barley.
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CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Look at the price of the betrayal. Handfuls of barley. Pieces of bread. Men sell the truth that keeps a community alive for almost nothing, and the smallness of the bribe is precisely the horror. A soul is condemned so that a liar can eat one more meal he did not earn.
Every lie rearranges the world. It kills what should have lived and props up what should have died, and it does this quietly, one comforting falsehood at a time. The people perish not from some grand evil but from a thousand tiny sales of the sacred for small change. Cheap deceit is how a whole people is led into ruin.
Clinical Psychology lens
What have I been selling cheap, and what exactly was I paid?
The lie is named as one of the few acts that corrodes a person at the root, no matter how small the gain that bought it. Size of the bribe is no defense.
He asks what you are trading your integrity for, and reminds himself the price offered is always small compared to what is sold. Nothing bought with a false word is worth the hand that wrote it.
The teachers warned that the tongue is light and cheap and ruins what the whole body spent years building. A single comfortable falsehood can undo a lifetime of trust.
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