Bible Verses About Deception for Protection

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

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

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.

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

And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.

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 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.

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

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.

He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.

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

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.

Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

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.

Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

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

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

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:

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

Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.

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.

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

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

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.