9 Bible Verses about Deceit

Their throat [is] an opened grave; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps [is] under their lips,

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

Because you have said, "We have {made} a covenant with death, and we have made an agreement with Sheol. [The] overwhelming flood, when it passes through, will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves in falsehood."

Because her rich are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.

I said in my haste, "{Everyone} [is] a liar."

He who is innocent of hands and pure of heart, who does not lift up his soul to falseness, and does not swear deceitfully.

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]."

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

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of a rock, the heights of its dwelling, [you who] say in your heart: 'Who can bring me down [to the] ground?'

Thus says Yahweh: 'You must not deceive yourselves, {saying}, "Surely the Chaldeans will go from us," for they will not go.

All of your {allies} have driven you up to the boundary; your {confederates} have deceived you and have prevailed against you. [Those who eat] your bread have set an ambush for you, there is no understanding of it.

Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.

The thoughts of the righteous are just; the advice of the wicked is treacherous.

For they do not speak peace, but against [the] quiet [ones] of [the] land they plan deceitful words.

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.

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

And Yahweh said to me, "The prophets [are] prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them, and I have not commanded them, and I have not spoken to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, and a divination, worthless, and the deceitfulness of their {minds}."

{How long} [will] this be in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceitfulness of their hearts,

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

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,

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.

so that we may no longer be infants, tossed about by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of people, by craftiness with reference to the scheming of deceit.

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach, and by smooth speech and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

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

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.

Go to the flock and take two good young goats from it for me, and I will prepare them [as] tasty food for your father, just as he likes.

And Jacob said to his father, "I [am] Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please get up, sit up and eat from my wild game so that you may bless me."

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.

Therefore, thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Look, I [am] about to refine them, and I will test them, for what else can I do, because of the {presence} of the daughter of my people? 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?

But the serpent said to the woman, "You shall not surely die. For God knows that on the day you [both] eat from it, then your eyes will be opened and you [both] shall be like gods, knowing good and evil."

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other {wild animal} which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God indeed say, 'You shall not eat from any tree in the garden'?"

Why do you boast about evil, O mighty man? The loyal love of God [endures] {continually}. Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit.

He made his grave with [the] wicked, and with [the] rich in his death, although he had done no violence, and [there was] no deceit in his mouth.

who did not commit sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth,

Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.

The thoughts of the righteous are just; the advice of the wicked is treacherous.

For they do not speak peace, but against [the] quiet [ones] of [the] land they plan deceitful words.

Judge me, O God, and plead my case against an unfaithful nation. From a man of deceit and wickedness rescue me,

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

His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.

The words of his mouth [are] wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to have insight [and] to do good.

His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.

Judge me, O God, and plead my case against an unfaithful nation. From a man of deceit and wickedness rescue me,

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.

He who is innocent of hands and pure of heart, who does not lift up his soul to falseness, and does not swear deceitfully. He will receive blessing from Yahweh, and justice from the God of his salvation.

and with every unrighteous deception against those who are perishing, in place of which they did not accept the love of the truth, so that they would be saved.

For such people [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

so that we may no longer be infants, tossed about by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of people, by craftiness with reference to the scheming of deceit.

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach, and by smooth speech and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

Thus says Yahweh: 'You must not deceive yourselves, {saying}, "Surely the Chaldeans will go from us," for they will not go.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of a rock, the heights of its dwelling, [you who] say in your heart: 'Who can bring me down [to the] ground?' [Even] if you soar like the eagle, [even] if your nest is set among [the] stars, from there I will bring you down!" {declares} Yahweh: "If thieves came to you, if plunderers of [the] night--How you have been destroyed!--would they not steal {what they wanted}? If grape gatherers came, would they not leave gleanings? read more.
How Esau has been pillaged; his treasures have been ransacked! All of your {allies} have driven you up to the boundary; your {confederates} have deceived you and have prevailed against you. [Those who eat] your bread have set an ambush for you, there is no understanding of it.

On his lips, an enemy will pretend, but {inside} he will harbor deceit. When he makes his voice gracious, do not believe him, for seven abominations [are] in his heart. Though hatred is covered with guile, its evil will be exposed in the assembly. read more.
He who digs a pit, in it he will fall, and he who rolls a stone, on him it will come back. A tongue of deceit hates its victim, and a flattering mouth makes ruin.

On his lips, an enemy will pretend, but {inside} he will harbor deceit. When he makes his voice gracious, do not believe him, for seven abominations [are] in his heart. Though hatred is covered with guile, its evil will be exposed in the assembly.

Then they took the robe of Joseph and slaughtered a goat, and dipped the robe in the blood. Then they sent the robe with long sleeves and they brought [it] to their father and said, "We found this; please examine [it]. [Is] it the robe of your son or not?"

Like a cage full of birds, so their houses [are] full of fraud. {Therefore} they have become great, and they have become rich. They have grown fat, they have grown sleek, also, {their evil deeds have no limit}. They do not judge [with] justice, [the] legal cause of [the] orphan, or allow it to succeed, and [the] legal case of [the] poor, they do not defend.

And Yahweh said to me, "The prophets [are] prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them, and I have not commanded them, and I have not spoken to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, and a divination, worthless, and the deceitfulness of their {minds}."

{How long} [will] this be in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceitfulness of their hearts,

So he changed his behavior {before them} and pretended to be mad {in their presence}. He made scratches on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down into his beard.

The wicked earns {deceptive gain}, but he who sows righteousness, a {true reward}.

But evil people and imposters will progress to the worse, deceiving and being deceived.

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

He who saves lives [is] a witness of truth, but he who utters lies [is] a betrayer.

The thoughts of the righteous are just; the advice of the wicked is treacherous.

Like a cage full of birds, so their houses [are] full of fraud. {Therefore} they have become great, and they have become rich.

The wounds of a friend mean well, but the kisses of an enemy are profane.

His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.

The words of his mouth [are] wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to have insight [and] to do good.

The heart [is] deceitful more than anything else, and it [is] disastrous. Who can understand it?

The wounds of a friend mean well, but the kisses of an enemy are profane.

The wisdom of the clever is understanding his ways, but the folly of fools is deceit.

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

being harmed [as the] wages of unrighteousness. Considering reveling in the daytime a pleasure, [they are] stains and blemishes, carousing in their deceitful pleasures [when they] feast together with you,

and your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not allowed him to harm me.

And everyone deceives his neighbor, and they do not speak [the] truth, they have taught their tongues to speak lies, they are tired [from] going astray.

Your dwelling [is] in the midst of deceit, upon deceit they refuse to know me," {declares} Yahweh.

Why has this people, Jerusalem, turned away [in] enduring apostasy? They have kept hold of deceit, they have refused to return.

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers,

And Moses said, "Look, I [am] going out from you, and I will pray to Yahweh so that the flies depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only let not Pharaoh again deceive [us] by not releasing the people to sacrifice to Yahweh."

And he sent them to Bethlehem [and] said, "Go, inquire carefully concerning the child, and when you have found [him], report to me so that I also may come [and] worship him."

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

From oppression and from violence he will redeem their lives, and their blood will be precious in his eyes.

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

Like a cage full of birds, so their houses [are] full of fraud. {Therefore} they have become great, and they have become rich. They have grown fat, they have grown sleek, also, {their evil deeds have no limit}. They do not judge [with] justice, [the] legal cause of [the] orphan, or allow it to succeed, and [the] legal case of [the] poor, they do not defend.

Their throat [is] an opened grave; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps [is] under their lips,

Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; and Judah is still wandering with God and [is] faithful to the Holy One.

The words of his mouth [are] wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to have insight [and] to do good.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in [the] flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

adulteries, [acts of] greed, malicious [deeds], deceit, licentiousness, {envy}, abusive speech, pride, foolishness.

Now after two days it was the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, [after] arresting him by stealth, they could kill [him].

For such people [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

[They] conceive trouble and bring forth mischief, and their womb prepares deceit."

adulteries, [acts of] greed, malicious [deeds], deceit, licentiousness, {envy}, abusive speech, pride, foolishness.

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

My companions are treacherous like a torrent-bed; like a streambed of wadis they flow away,

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

"If I have walked with falseness, and my foot has hastened to deceit,

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

He who saves lives [is] a witness of truth, but he who utters lies [is] a betrayer.

and with every unrighteous deception against those who are perishing, in place of which they did not accept the love of the truth, so that they would be saved.

being harmed [as the] wages of unrighteousness. Considering reveling in the daytime a pleasure, [they are] stains and blemishes, carousing in their deceitful pleasures [when they] feast together with you,

But evil people and imposters will progress to the worse, deceiving and being deceived.

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

The wicked earns {deceptive gain}, but he who sows righteousness, a {true reward}.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in [the] flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

Your dwelling [is] in the midst of deceit, upon deceit they refuse to know me," {declares} Yahweh.

Their throat [is] an opened grave; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps [is] under their lips,

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers,

Why has this people, Jerusalem, turned away [in] enduring apostasy? They have kept hold of deceit, they have refused to return.

And everyone deceives his neighbor, and they do not speak [the] truth, they have taught their tongues to speak lies, they are tired [from] going astray.

He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, a curse will be reckoned to him.

My eyes [will be] on [the] faithful of [the] land, that [they may] live with me. [He who] walks in [the] way of integrity, he shall minister to me. There will not live in the midst of my house a worker of deceit. One who speaks lies will not remain before my eyes.

Then he said, "My lord the king, my servant deceived me, for your servant had said, 'Let me saddle the donkey that I may ride on her and go with the king,' for your servant [is] lame.