12 Bible Verses about Avoiding Deceit

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile:

Therefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

that, as to your former life, you put off the old man, which is corrupt, according to its deceitful desires,

For we ourselves also were formerly foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one an other.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that also shall he reap.

Let no one deceive you with vain words: for on account of these things, the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Let no one deceive you by any means; for that day will not come, unless the apostasy come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

Little children, let no one deceive you: he that works righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Now I say this, that no one may deceive you by persuasive words.

For our exhortation arose not from deception, nor from uncleanness, nor was it with guile;

by honor and dishonor, by evil report, and good report; as impostors, yet truthful;

See that no one make you the victims of imposture by means of philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not ac cording to Christ: