8 Bible Verses about Trusting Deceptive Things

Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.

Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.

Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.

See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.

This is your fate, the part measured out to you by me, says the Lord, because you have put me out of your memory and put your faith in what is false.

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Give ear, now, Hananiah; the Lord has not sent you; but you are making this people put their faith in what is false.

Send to all those who have been taken away, saying, This is what the Lord has said about Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has been acting as a prophet to you, and I did not send him, and has made you put your faith in what is false;

And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false: