Bible Verses About Deflection

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.

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

Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.

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

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?

And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;

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.

Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?

The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.

But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest.

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

For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.

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

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

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.

Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

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

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.

Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.