38 Bible Verses about Deception

then he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.

For many deceivers are come out into the world, who disown that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. Such a one is a deceiver and an antichrist.

and sending them to Bethlehem, he said, Go and make diligent search for the child, and when ye have found Him, let me know, that I also may come and worship Him.

Beloved, we are now the children of God, but it doth not yet appear what we shall be: we know however, that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.

Be not deceived, bad conversations corrupt good morals.

Let no one deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

But as to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto Him, we beseech you, brethren, that ye be not soon moved from your steadiness of mind, or troubled, neither by Spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, that the day of Christ is at hand. Let not any one deceive you by any means; for it shall not come till there come an apostasy first, and the man of sin be revealed,

For if any one thinketh that he is something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every one try his own work, and then he will have matter of glorying in himself alone, and not in another.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror, who beheld himself, and went away, and immediately forgot what manner of man he was. read more.
But he that looketh well into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his heart, this man's devotion is vain.

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

because thou sayst, I am rich, and wealthy, and have want of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.

For if any one thinketh that he is something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

If any among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his heart, this man's devotion is vain.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

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

And they send to Him their disciples along with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art a man of truth, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest for any man; for thou regardest not the person of men: Tell us therefore what thou thinkest,

And behold, a lawyer stood up to try Him, and said, Master, what must I do to inherit eternal life?

Now the feast of the passover and unleavened bread was within two days: and the chief priests and the scribes were contriving how they might seize Him by treachery and put Him to death.

But a certain man named Ananias, together with Sapphira his wife,

and sending them to Bethlehem, he said, Go and make diligent search for the child, and when ye have found Him, let me know, that I also may come and worship Him.