23 Bible Verses about Deceiving Oneself

The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately corrupt. Who can understand it?

They eat ashes because they are deceived. Their own misguided minds lead them astray. They cannot rescue themselves or ask themselves: Is what I hold in my right hand a false god?

coveting, wickedness, deceit, loose conduct, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.

You felt sure of yourself in your evil. You thought that no one could see you. Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray. Then you said to yourself: 'I am God! There is no one else like me.'

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

Jehovah says: 'Do not deceive yourselves by thinking that the Babylonians will leave you. They will not leave you.

Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

So if any one of you thinks you are important when you really are not, you are only fooling yourself.

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, who deceive themselves.

You are making a fatal mistake. You asked me to pray to Jehovah our God for you, and you promised that you would do everything that he commands.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way. The folly of fools is deception.

If any man thinks he is religious, while he does not control his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's religion is vain (worthless) (useless).

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not live (practice) the truth.

Do not be deceived: Bad company corrupts good morals.

Do not be deceived. God is not mocked! A man will harvest what he sows.

Guard yourselves! Your heart could be deceived. You could turn away and serve other gods and worship them.

For I have heard the whispering of many: Terror on every side! Denounce him; yes, let us denounce him! All my trusted friends are watching for my fall. They say: Perhaps he will be deceived, so that we may prevail against him and take our revenge on him.

Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless. He will get nothing in return.

For sin, finding occasion, through the commandment deceived me, and through it killed me.

You have frightened other people. Your arrogance has deceived you. You live on rocky cliffs and occupy the highest places in the hills. Even though you build your nest as high as an eagle, I will bring you down from there, proclaims Jehovah.

Encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

but the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts for other things enter in and choke the word. So it becomes unfruitful.