12 Bible Verses about Avoiding Deceit

For, "He who would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Therefore, put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

You were taught, with regard to your former manner of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful lusts;

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another.

Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that 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 deceive you in any way; for that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

Little children, let no one deceive you. He who does right is righteous, just as he is righteous.

I say this so that no one may delude you with fine-sounding arguments.

For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity, nor is it made with deceit;

through glory and dishonor, evil report and good report; true, yet regarded as impostors;

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