28 Bible Verses about Avoiding Deceit

"When a person {displays infidelity} against Yahweh and he deceives his fellow citizen regarding something entrusted or {a pledge} or stealing or he exploits his fellow citizen,

or he finds lost property and lies about it and swears {falsely} {in regard to} any one of these things by which {a person} might commit sin,

Happy [is] a person to whom Yahweh does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is not deceit.

There will not live in the midst of my house a worker of deceit. One who speaks lies will not remain before my eyes.

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.

For "The one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and [his] lips must not speak deceit.

Do not be a witness without cause against your neighbor nor deceive with your lips.

Remove from yourself {deceitful speech}, and abolish {devious talk} from yourself.

Therefore, ridding yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

O sons of man, how long will my honor be a disgrace? [How long] will you love vanity? [How long] will you seek lies? Selah

The remnant of Israel shall not do wickedness; they shall not speak deception, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall frighten [them]."

[that] you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires,

For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another.

Thus says the king, 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to rescue you from my hand.

Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked, for whatever a person sows, this he will also reap,

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these [things] the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

Do not let anyone deceive you in any way, for [that day will not come] unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

Little children, let no one deceive you: the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as that one is righteous.

I say this in order that no one will deceive you with persuasive speech,

Keep falsehood and a {lying word} far from me; do not give me poverty or wealth; provide me [with] food [only for] my need.

O Yahweh, hear a just cause. Hear my cry; heed my prayer [I make] without deceitful lips.

For our exhortation [is] not from error or from impurity or with deceit,

through glory and dishonor, through slander and good repute, [regarded] as deceivers and [yet] truthful,

my lips surely will not speak falseness, and my tongue surely will not utter deceit.

Beware lest {anyone take you captive} through philosophy and empty deceit, according to {human tradition}, according to the elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ,

"Deliver my life, O Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue."

For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Do not let your prophets who [are] in your midst, and your diviners, deceive you, and you must not listen to your dreams that you [are] causing [them] to dream.

{And then} on that day, each of the prophets will be ashamed because of his vision when he was prophesying, and they will not put on a cloak of hair in order to deceive,