12 Bible Verses about Craftiness

And the serpent was crafty above every beast of the field which Jehovah God made; and he will say to the woman, Is it because God said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And they will do in guile, and will go and will lay snares, and will take sacking worn out, for their asses, and leather sacks of wine worn out, and being rent and bound up;

That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit;

And they counselled together, that they might obtain Jesus by stratagem, and might kill.

And having perceived their craft, he said to them, Why tempt ye me?

And they sent to him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might catch him in the word.

Then the Pharisees, having gone, took counsel how they might ensnare him in word. And they send to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, and care is to thee for none; for thou lookest not to the face of men. Therefore say to us, What seems to thee Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

Saying, Teacher, Moses said, If any one die, not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother. And with us were seven brethren: and the first, having married, died; and having no seed, he left his wife to his brother. And likewise the second, and third, even till the seven. read more.
And after all died also the woman. Therefore in the rising up whose of the seven shall the woman be? for they all had her.

And they reclining and eating, Jesus said, Truly I say to you, That one of you shall deliver me up, he eating with me. And they began to be grieved, and to say to him one by one, What, not I? and another, What, not I? And he having answered, said to them, One of the twelve, he dipping with me into the small dish. read more.
Truly the Son of man retires, as has been written of him: and woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up! it were good for him if that man had not been born. And they eating, Jesus having taken bread, having praised, brake, and gave them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body. And having taken the cup, having returned thanks, he gave them: and they all drank of it.

And the chief priests and scribes sought to lay hands upon him in the same hour; and they feared the people: for they knew he spake this parable against them. And having observed narrowly, they sent liers-in-wait, feigning themselves to be just, that they might seize upon his word, to deliver him to the beginning and authority of the leader. And they asked him, saying. Teacher, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, and thou receivest not the face, but teachest in truth the way of God: read more.
Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not And having perceived their craft, he said to them, Why tempt ye me? Show me drachma. Whose image and inscription has it? And having answered they said, Caesar's. And he said to them, Return therefore to Caesar, Caesar's things, and to God the things of God. And they were not able to seize upon his word before the people: and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.

But I will seek to God, and to God set my cause: He did great things, and no searching;. and wonders even no number: He gave rain upon the face of the earth, and sent waters upon the out places: read more.
To raise up the humbled to height; and those mourning were exalted to salvation. Bringing to nought the purposes of the crafty, and their hand shall not do an undertaking. He took the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the perverse was headlong.

Let none completely deceive himself. If any think to be wise in this life, let him be foolish, that he may he wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written, He seizing the wise in their deceptions.

For this, having this service, as we were compassionated, we lose not courage; But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.

And they counselled together, that they might obtain Jesus by stratagem, and might kill.

And after two days was the pascha, and the unleavened loaves: and the chief priests and scribes sought how, having taken him by fraud, they might kill.

And he will say, What shall I give to thee? and Jacob will say, Thou shalt not give to me anything. If thou wilt do to me this word, I will return; I will feed thy sheep; I will watch. I will pass over among all thy sheep this day, removing from thence every sheep speckled and patched, and every sheep black among the lambs; and the patched and speckled among the she-goats; and it shall be my hire. And my justice shall speak for me in the day tomorrow, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one which is not speckled and patched among the she-goats and black among the lambs, that to be stolen with me. read more.
And Laban will say to him, Behold, it shall be according to thy word. And he will remove in that day the he-goats banded and patched, and all the she-goats speckled and patched; every one which being white on it, and every one black among the sheep, and he will give into the hand of his sons. And he will set a way of three days between him and between Jacob; and Jacob fed Laban's sheep the rest. And Jacob will take to himself a rod of green storax, and the almond tree, and the plane tree, and he will strip off of them the white strippings, uncovering the white which was upon the rods. And he set the rods which he stripped, in the flowings of channels of water, when the flock shall come to drink, before the sheep, and they shall be in heat in coming to drink. And the sheep shall conceive at the rods, and shall bring forth sheep banded and speckled and patched. And Jacob separated the lambs, and he will give the faces of the sheep to the banded and every one black among the sheep of Laban: and he will set to himself the flocks, to himself alone, and not put them with Laban's sheep. And it was in every one conceiving of the strong sheep, and Jacob put the rods before the eyes of the sheep in the floorings, to conceive among the rods. And in the sheep being feeble, he will not put in: and those being feeble, were to Laban, and those being strong, to Jacob. And the man will break forth greatly, greatly; and there will be to him many sheep and maids, and servants, and camels and asses.

And Jacob will say, Sell this day thy birth-right to me. And Esau will say, Behold, I am going to die, and what to me this birthright? And Jacob will say, Swear to me this day: and he will swear to him: and he will sell his birth-right to Jacob.

And the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua did to Jericho and to Ai. And they will do in guile, and will go and will lay snares, and will take sacking worn out, for their asses, and leather sacks of wine worn out, and being rent and bound up; And shoes worn out and mended, upon their feet, and garments worn out upon them; and all the bread of their food dry; it was crumbs. read more.
And they will come to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and will say to him and to the men of Israel, From a land far off we came: and now cut out to us a covenant. And the men of Israel will say to the Hivite, Perhaps thou shalt dwell in the midst of me, and I shall not make a covenant to thee. And they will say to Joshua, We thy servants. And Joshua will say to them, Who are ye? and from whence will ye come? And they will say to him, From a land very far off thy servants came, for the name of Jehovah thy God; for we heard his fame and all that he did in Egypt And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan, to Sihon, king of Heshbon, and to Og, king of Bashan, in Ashtaroth. And our old men and all the inhabitants of our land will say to us, saying, Take in your hand food for the way, and go to meet them, and say to them, We your servants: and now cut out to us a covenant: This the hot bread we took it for food from our houses in the day we came forth to come to you; and now, behold, it dry, and it was crumbs And these leather sacks of wine which we filled, new, and behold, they were rent; and these our garments and our shoes worn out from the exceeding greatness of the way. And the men will take of their food, and they asked not the mouth of Jehovah. And Joshua will make peace to them, and will cut out to them a covenant to preserve them alive: and the chiefs of the assembly sware to them.

And Rebekah spake to Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speaking to Esau thy brother, saying, Bring to me a hunting, and make for me dainties, and eating, and I will praise thee before Jehovah, before my death. And now my son, hear to my voice, according to that I command thee. read more.
Go now to the flocks, and take to me from thence two kids of the she-goats good, and I will make them dainties for thy father, as that he loved. And thou shall bring to thy father, and eating, so that he will praise thee before his death. And Jacob will say to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother a man of hair, and I a smooth man: Perhaps my father will feel me, and I was in his eyes as mocking; and I brought a curse and not a praise. And his mother will say to him, Upon me thy curse my son; only hear to my voice, and go take to me. And he will go, and will take, and bring to his mother: and his mother will make dainties as that his father loved. And Rebekah will take desirable covering of Esau her son, the great, which was with her in the house, and will put upon Jacob her son, the small. And the nakedness of the skins of the shegoats, she put upon his hands and upon the smoothness of his neck. And she will give the dainties, and the bread which she made, into the hand of Jacob her son. And he will go to his father and will say, My father. And he will say, Behold me; who thou my son? And Jacob will say to his father, I am Esau thy first-born; I did according to that thou spakest to me: arise, now, sit and eat from my hunting, so that thy soul shall praise me. And Isaak will say to his son, How this, thou wert quick to find my son? and the will say, Because Jehovah thy God caused to meet before me. And Isaak will say to Jacob, Come near, now, and I shall feel thee, my son, if thou this my son Esau or not And Jacob will come near to Isaak his father, and he will feel him, and he will say, The voice, the voice of Jacob; and the hands, the hands of Esau. And he knew him not, for his hands were as the hands of Esau, his brother of hair: and he will praise him. And he will say, Thou this my son Esau? and he will say, I. And he will say, Bring near to me, and eating of my son's hunting, so that my soul shall praise thee. And he will bring near to him and he will eat: and he will bring wine to him, and he will drink And Isaak his father will say to him, Come near, now, and kiss me, my son. And he will come near, and will kiss him: and he will smell the smell of his garment, and he will bless him, and he will say, See, the smell of my son as the smell of a field which Jehovah praised. And God will give to thee from the dew of the heavens, and from the fatness of the earth, and a multiude of corn and new wine. And nations shall serve thee, and peoples shall bow down to thee; be lord over thy brother, and thy mother's sons shall bow down to thee: cursed he cursing thee, and blessed he praising thee.

And the serpent was crafty above every beast of the field which Jehovah God made; and he will say to the woman, Is it because God said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman will say to the serpent, From the fruit of the tree of the garden we shall eat And from the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God said, Ye shall not eat from it, and ye shall not touch upon it, lest ye shall die. read more.
And the serpent will say to the woman, Dying ye shall not die. For God is knowing in the day of your eating from it, and your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.