'Deceit' in the Bible

And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.

And he said, Your brother came with deceit, and took away your blessing.

Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs.

And Moses said, When I go out from you I will make prayer to the Lord that the cloud of flies may go away from Pharaoh and from his people and from his servants tomorrow: only let Pharaoh no longer by deceit keep back the people from making their offering to the Lord.

But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

Acting with deceit, got food together as if for a long journey; and took old food-bags for their asses, and old and cracked wine-skins kept together with cord;

Go now, and take more steps, and see where he is living: for they say that he is expert in deceit.

And the woman saw that it was Saul, and she gave a loud cry, and said to Saul, Why have you made use of deceit? for you are Saul.

Is it not clear to you that Abner, the son of Ner, came with deceit to get knowledge of your going out and your coming in and of all you are doing?

And he said in answer, Because of the deceit of my servant, my lord king: for I, your servant, said to him, You are to make ready an ass and on it I will go with the king, for your servant has not the use of his feet.

And the Lord said, How? And he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Your trick will have its effect on him: go out and do so.

And now, see, the Lord has put a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the Lord has said evil against you.

Now send for all the prophets of Baal and all his servants and all his priests, to come to me; let no one keep away: for I have a great offering to make to Baal; anyone who is not present, will be put to death. This Jehu did with deceit, his purpose being the destruction of the servants of Baal.

And he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said, Your trick will have its effect on him: go out and do so.

And now, see, the Lord has put a spirit of deceit in the mouth of these prophets of yours; and the Lord has said evil against you.

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

Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?

Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.

If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.

That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.

In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

Happy is the man who has faith in the Lord, and does not give honour to the men of pride or to those who are turned away to deceit.

If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)

Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.

You, O Lord God of armies, are the God of Israel; come now and give punishment to the nations; have no mercy on any workers of deceit. (Selah.)

Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)

The deceit of those who are against him will not overcome him; he will not be troubled by the sons of evil.

For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.

Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.

The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.

The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.

The breathing out of true words gives knowledge of righteousness; but a false witness gives out deceit.

Deceit is in the heart of those whose designs are evil, but for those purposing peace there is joy.

A true witness does not say what is false, but a false witness is breathing out deceit.

The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

A true witness is the saviour of lives; but he who says false things is a cause of deceit.

A wrongdoer gives attention to evil lips, and a man of deceit gives ear to a damaging tongue.

A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.

A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will be cut off.

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but after, his mouth will be full of sand.

The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.

Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.

Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.

So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?

With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;

Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people.

Fair looks are a deceit, and a beautiful form is of no value; but a woman who has the fear of the Lord is to be praised.

Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.

A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow.

For this cause the Holy One of Israel says, Because you will not give ear to this word, and are looking for help in ways of deceit and evil, and are putting your hope in them:

And they put his body into the earth with sinners, and his last resting-place was with the evil-doers, though he had done no wrong, and no deceit was in his mouth.

For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.

But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.

As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.

For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.

All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.

Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.

Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

Then the Lord said to me, The prophets say false words in my name, and I gave them no orders, and I said nothing to them: what they say to you is a false vision and wonder-working words without substance, the deceit of their hearts.

O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.

For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a shocking thing; they are untrue to their wives, walking in deceit, and they make strong the hands of evil-doers, so that a man may not be turned back from his evil-doing: they have all become like Sodom to me, and its people like Gomorrah

Is (my word) in the hearts of the prophets who give out false words, even the prophets of the deceit of their hearts?

See, I am against the prophets of false dreams, says the Lord, who give them out and make my people go out of the way by their deceit and their uncontrolled words: but I did not send them or give them orders; and they will be of no profit to this people, says the Lord.

For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.

Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

And if the prophet, tricked by deceit, says anything, it is I the Lord by whom he has been tricked, and I will put out my hand against him, and he will be cut off from among my people Israel.

And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.

And his designs will be turned against the holy people, causing deceit to do well in his hand; in his heart he will make himself great, and send destruction on numbers who are living unconscious of their danger; and he will put himself up against the prince of princes; but he will be broken, though not by men's hands.

Give ear to this, O priests; give attention, O Israel, and you, family of the king; for you are to be judged; you have been a deceit at Mizpah and a net stretched out on Tabor.

Ephraim is troubled; he is crushed by his judges, because he took pleasure in walking after deceit.

In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.

You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.

The deceit of Ephraim and the false words of Israel are about me on every side. ...

Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.

As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.

Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;

For this cause give a parting offering to Moresheth-gath: the daughter of Achzib will be a deceit to the king of Israel.

If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.

A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.

And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master's house full of violent behaviour and deceit.

Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.

The rest of Israel will do no evil and say no false words; the tongue of deceit will not be seen in their mouth: for they will take their food and their rest, and no one will be a cause of fear to them.

For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.