28 Bible Verses about Deceit, Practice Of

" 'You shall not steal, and you shall not deceive, and you shall not lie {to one another};

"You shall not testify against your neighbor [with] a false witness.

" 'You shall not commit injustice in regulation, in measurement, in weight, or volume.

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny [him], [because they] are detestable and disobedient, and unfit for every good deed.

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

but we have renounced shameful hidden things, not behaving with craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but with the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person's conscience before God.

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

You destroy speakers of lies. {A man of bloodshed} and deceit Yahweh abhors.

Shall I regard as pure [the one] with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

He who will speak truth will reveal righteousness, but the witness of falsehood, deceit.

A faithful witness does not lie, but he who breathes out falsehood is a witness of deceit.

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes lies will perish.

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

Who may ascend [the] mountain of Yahweh? And who may stand in his holy place? He who is innocent of hands and pure of heart, who does not lift up his soul to falseness, and does not swear deceitfully.

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

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]."

God [is] spirit, and the ones who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

So then, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old leaven or with the leaven of wickedness and sinfulness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Therefore, putting aside the lie, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

Do not lie to one another, [because you] have taken off the old man together with his deeds,

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.

and in their mouth a lie was not found; they are blameless.

For detestable to Yahweh your God [is] everyone who [is] doing such things, everyone who [is] acting dishonestly.

But you, O God, you will bring them down to [the] pit of corruption. [The] men of bloodshed and deceit will not live half their days, but I will trust you.

You reject all [who] stray from your statutes, for their deceit [is] a breach of faith.

Bread gained by deceit is sweet for the man, but afterward, his mouth will be filled [with] gravel.

He who makes treasure by a lying tongue [is a] fleeting vapor [and] seeker of death.

Their tongue [is] a murderous arrow, it speaks deceit. With his mouth he speaks peace with his neighbor, but in his inner parts he sets up his ambush. Because of these [things] shall I not punish them?" {declares} Yahweh, "On a nation that [is] like this shall I not take revenge?