28 Bible Verses about Avoiding Deceit

“When a person sins and acts unfaithfully against the Lord, and deceives his companion in regard to a deposit or a security entrusted to him, or through robbery, or if he has extorted from his companion,

or has found what was lost and lied about it and sworn falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one of the things a man may do;

How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity,
And in whose spirit there is no deceit!

He who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house;
He who speaks falsehood shall not maintain his position before me.

Keep your tongue from evil
And your lips from speaking deceit.

For,
“The one who desires life, to love and see good days,
Must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause,
And do not deceive with your lips.

Put away from you a deceitful mouth
And put devious speech far from you.

Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

O sons of men, how long will my honor become a reproach?
How long will you love what is worthless and aim at deception? Selah.

“The remnant of Israel will do no wrong
And tell no lies,
Nor will a deceitful tongue
Be found in their mouths;
For they will feed and lie down
With no one to make them tremble.”

that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Thus says the king, ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you from my hand;

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous;

I say this so that no one will delude you with persuasive argument.

Keep deception and lies far from me,
Give me neither poverty nor riches;
Feed me with the food that is my portion,

A Prayer of David.
Hear a just cause, O Lord, give heed to my cry;
Give ear to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips.

For our exhortation does not come from error or impurity or by way of deceit;

by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; regarded as deceivers and yet true;

My lips certainly will not speak unjustly,
Nor will my tongue mutter deceit.

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips,
From a deceitful tongue.

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream.

Also it will come about in that day that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a hairy robe in order to deceive;