23 Bible Verses about Deceiving Oneself

The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who shall know it?

The ashes feed him; his deceived heart inclines him, that he not deliver his soul and say, Is not the lie at my right hand?

the thefts, the covetousness, the wickedness, the deceit, the lasciviousness, the evil eye, the slander, the pride, the unwiseness:

For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, No one sees me. Thy wisdom and thine own knowledge; it has deceived thee; for thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and no one else beside me.

Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you seems to be wise in this age, let them become a fool that they may be wise.

Thus hath the LORD said; Do not deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans have surely departed from us; for they shall not depart.

Do not err, my beloved brethren.

For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Why did ye cause your souls to err? For ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.

The wisdom of the sane is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

If anyone among you thinks to be religious and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion is vain.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth;

Be not deceived: evil companions corrupt good character.

Do not deceive yourselves; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows that shall he also reap.

Keep yourselves, therefore, that your heart not be deceived and ye turn aside and serve other gods and worship them;

For I heard the murmuring of many, fear on every side, Report, and we will report it. All my friends watched to see if I would stumble. Peradventure he will deceive himself, they said, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

He shall not be established; in vanity he shall err; therefore, he shall be changed into vanity.

For sin, having had occasion, deceived me by the commandment and by it killed me.

Thy arrogance has deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dost dwell in the clefts of the rock, that dost hold the height of the mountain: though thou should make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from there, said the LORD.

But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.