22 Bible Verses about Men Deceiving

who speak lies, and make false promises.

Like a madman who shoots firebrands and deadly arrows, so is a person who deceives his neighbor, and says, "Was I not only joking?"

One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.

All the women who are left in the royal palace of Judah will be led out to the officers of the king of Babylon. They will taunt you saying, 'Your trusted friends misled you; they have gotten the best of you. Now that your feet are stuck in the mud, they have turned their backs on you.'

Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. They refuse to turn back to me.

So I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least important to the most important of them, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. Prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.

The one who hates others disguises it with his lips, but he stores up deceit within him.

and said, "You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness -- will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.

For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.

Bread gained by deceit tastes sweet to a person, but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

Do not crave that ruler's delicacies, for that food is deceptive.

After entering into an alliance with him, he will behave treacherously; he will ascend to power with only a small force.

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 with Jewish connections,

Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

And many false prophets will appear and deceive many,

(Nun) Your prophets saw visions for you that were worthless lies. They failed to expose your sin so as to restore your fortunes. They saw oracles for you that were worthless lies.