23 Bible Verses about Deceiving Oneself

Crooked is the heart above all things, And it is incurable -- who doth know it?

Feeding on ashes, the heart is deceived, It hath turned him aside, And he delivereth not his soul, nor saith: 'Is there not a lie in my right hand?'

thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness;

And thou art confident in thy wickedness, Thou hast said, 'There is none seeing me,' Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, It is turning thee back, And thou sayest in thy heart, 'I am, and none else.'

Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

'Thus said Jehovah: Lift not up your souls saying, The Chaldeans surely go from off us, for they do not go;

Be not led astray, my brethren beloved;

for if any one doth think himself to be something -- being nothing -- himself he doth deceive;

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

for ye have shewed yourselves perverse in your souls, for ye sent me unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah our God, and according to all that Jehovah our God saith, so declare to us, and we have done it;

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, And the folly of fools is deceit.

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain is the religion;

if we may say -- 'we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

if we may say -- 'we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth;

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap,

'Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be enticed, and ye have turned aside, and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them,

For I have heard the evil report of many, Fear is round about: 'Declare, and we declare it,' All mine allies are watching for my halting, 'Perhaps he is enticed, and we prevail over him, And we take our vengeance out of him.'

Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.

for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay me;

Thy terribleness hath lifted thee up, The pride of thy heart, O dweller in clefts of the rock, Holding the high place of the height, For thou makest high as an eagle thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.

but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,

and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.