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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Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
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 our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.