22 Bible Verses about Men Deceiving

whose mouth speaks falsely, and their right hand [is] a false right hand.

Like a maniac who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death, so [is] a man who deceives his neighbor, but says "Am I not joking?"

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.

Now look, all the women who remain in the house of the king of Judah [are] being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon. And look, [they are] saying, '{Your trusted friends} have misled you, and they have prevailed against you. Your feet are stuck in the mud, [so] they turned backward.'

Why has this people, Jerusalem, turned away [in] enduring apostasy? They have kept hold of deceit, they have refused to return.

Therefore I will give their wives to others, their fields to conquerors, because from [the] smallest to [the] greatest, all of them make profit [for] unlawful gain, from prophet to priest, all of them practice deceit.

But evil people and imposters will progress to the worse, deceiving and being deceived.

On his lips, an enemy will pretend, but {inside} he will harbor deceit.

[and] said, "O [you who are] full of all deceit and of all unscrupulousness, [you] son of the devil, [you] enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord!

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers,

Like a cage full of birds, so their houses [are] full of fraud. {Therefore} they have become great, and they have become rich.

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach, and by smooth speech and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

Bread gained by deceit is sweet for the man, but afterward, his mouth will be filled [with] gravel.

Do not desire his delicacies, for it is food of deception.

And after an alliance [is made] with him, he will act deceitfully, and he will rise and he will become powerful with few people [backing him].

For such people [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

For there are many rebellious [people], idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

Behold, the wages that were held back by you from the workers who reap your fields cry out, and the cries of the reapers have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts.

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

These [things] I have written to you concerning the ones who are trying to deceive you.

and many false prophets will appear and will deceive many,

Your prophets had a vision for you, false and worthless; they have not exposed your sin, to restore your fortune; they have seen oracles for you, false and misleading.