Bible Verses About Cunning

But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?

Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.

An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.

Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.

That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father’s,

For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord, a wicked counsellor.

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;