11 Bible Verses about Deviousness

Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

And he came to his father, and said, My father: And he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son? And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. And Isaac said to his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me.read more.
And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou art my very son Esau, or not. And Jacob went near to Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: So he blessed him. And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. And he said, bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he ate: and he brought him wine, and he drank. And his father Isaac said to him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed: