28 Bible Verses about Deceit, Practice Of
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"'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.
Who may ascend to Yahweh's hill? Who may stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn't impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid."
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
For, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.
For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him. Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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