Bible Verses About Deceit
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
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.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
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.
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Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
31And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
32And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no.
And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.
And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
4He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
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.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
1To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.