28 Bible Verses about Avoiding Deceit

When a soul shall sin and cover a transgression against Jehovah, and lie against his neighbor in a deposit, or in trust of the hand, or in robbery, or oppressing his neighbor;

Or he found the lost thing, and lied concerning it, and swore upon falsehood; upon one of all which the man will do, for sinning in them.

Happy the man Jehovah will not reckon sin to him, and no deceit in his spirit

He doing deceit shall not dwell in the midst of my house: he speaking falsehoods shall not be prepared before mine eyes.

Watch thy tongue from evil; and thy lips from speaking deceit

For he wishing to love life, and to see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit:

Thou shalt not be a witness gratuitously against thy neighbor, and deceive not with thy lips.

Turn away from thee perverseness of mouth, and frowardness of lips remove far oft from thee.

Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies,

Sons of man, how long mine honor for shame? Ye will love emptiness, ye. will seek falsehood. Silence.

The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, and they shall not speak falsehood: and in their mouth shall not be found a tongue of deceit: for they shall feed and lie down, and none terrifying.

For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit;

For once we also were unwise disobedient, deceived, being slaves to eager desires and various pleasures, living in vexation and envy, hated, and hating one another.

Thus said the king, Hezekiah shall not be lifted up to you: for he shall not be able to deliver you from my hand:

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man should sow, that also shall he reap.

Let none lead you astray with vain words: for by these things comes the anger of God upon the sons of disobedience.

Let none deceive you in any manner: for, except an apostasy come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Little children, let none deceive you: he doing justice is just, as he is just.

And this I say, lest any mislead you with persuasive arguments.

Vanity and the word of falsehood remove far from me; thou wilt not give to me poverty and riches; feed me with bread of my allowance:

Prayer of David. Hear justice, O Jehovah, attend to my outcry, give ear to my prayer, not in lips of deceit.

For our entreaty nor from error, nor from uncleanness, nor in deceit:

Through glory and ignominy, through slander and applause: as erring, and true;

If my lips shall speak iniquity, and my tongue if it shall murmur deceit

See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

O Jehovah, deliver my soul from lips of falsehood, from a tongue of deceit.

For thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, Your prophets in the midst of you shall not deceive to you, and your diviners and you shall not hear to your dreams which ye dream.

And it was in that day the prophets shall be ashamed, each of his vision, in his prophesying; and they shall not put on a mantle of hair to speak lies: