19 Bible Verses about Deception In Fallen Human Nature
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The heart [is] deceitful more than anything else, and it [is] disastrous. Who can understand it?
For there is not [anything] reliable in his mouth; their inner part [is] destruction. Their throat is an open grave; [with] their tongue they speak deceit.
His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.
For they do not speak peace, but against [the] quiet [ones] of [the] land they plan deceitful words.
The words of his mouth [are] wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to have insight [and] to do good.
Because her rich are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.
Their throat [is] an opened grave; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps [is] under their lips,
Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.
"Let everyone be on your guard against his neighbor, and you must not trust in any brother, for everyone surely betrays, and every neighbor goes about [with] slander. 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.
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.
Woe to the city [that has shed] {much blood}! {She is a deceiver}, She is filled [with] plunder, {She has hoarded her spoils of war}.
For from the heart come evil plans, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, abusive speech.
For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, adulteries, [acts of] greed, malicious [deeds], deceit, licentiousness, {envy}, abusive speech, pride, foolishness.
being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers,
But evil people and imposters will progress to the worse, deceiving and being deceived.
A certain one of them, [one of] their own prophets, has said, "Cretans [are] always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."
