Bible Verses About Deceit

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.

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

He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

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

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

Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

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 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.

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

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

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.

He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;

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

By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

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.

But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.