27 Bible Verses about Avoiding Deceit

When any person, shall sin, and shall commit a trespass against Yahweh, - and shall withhold something of the truth from his neighbour in respect of a deposit, or a pledge or anything plundered, or shall use extortion with his neighbour;

or shall find something lost and shall withhold some-thing of the truth therein, and shall swear to a falsehood, - as regardeth a single thing of all that a son of earth may do, to commit sin thereby;

How happy the son of earth, to whom Yahweh will not reckon iniquity! and in whose spirit is no guile!

There shall not dwell in the midst of my house, One who worketh deceit, - he that speaketh falsehoods, shall not be established before mine eyes;

Keep thy tongue from wickedness, And thy lips from speaking deceit:

For, he that desireth to love, life, and to see good days, Let him cause his tongue to cease from mischief, and lips, that they speak not deceit;

Do not become a needless witness against thy neighbour, so mightest thou open too wide thy lips:

Remove from thee, perverseness of mouth, and, craftiness of lips, put far from thee.

Putting away, therefore, all vice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envyings and all detractions,

Ye sons of the great! how long, turning my glory to contempt, will ye love emptiness, will ye seek falsehood? Selah.

The remnant of Israel - will not do perversity, nor speak falsehood, neither shall there be found in their mouth a tongue of deceit, - surely, they, shall feed and lie down, with none to make them afraid.

That ye were to strip off - as regardeth the former behaviour - the old man, who corrupteth himself according to his deceitful covetings,

For, even we, used, at one time, to be - thoughtless, unyielding, deceived, in servitude unto manifold covetings and pleasures, in malice and envy, leading on, detestable, hating one another.

Thus, saith the king: Let not Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not he able to deliver you out of his hand;

Be not deceiving yourselves! God, is not to be mocked; for, whatsoever a man soweth, the same, shall he also reap, -

Let no one be deceiving you with empty words; for, because of these things, is coming the anger of God upon the sons of obstinacy:

That no one may cheat, you, in any one respect. Because that day will not set in - except the revolt come first, and there he revealed the man of lawlessness, the son of destruction,

Dear children! Let, no one, lead you astray! He that is doing righteousness, is, righteous, just as, He, is righteous:

This I say, in order that, no one, may be reasoning, you, aside with plausible discourse;

Vanity and falsehood, remove far from me, Neither poverty nor riches, give me, Feed me with the food appointed me:

Hear, O Yahweh, the right, Attend to my loud cry, Give ear unto my prayer, on lips that would not deceive:

For, our exhortation, is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile,

through glory and dishonour, through bad report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true,

Verily my lips shall not speak perversity, nor shall, my tongue, utter deceit.

Be taking heed, lest there shall be anyone leading, you, off as a spoil, through means of their philosophy, and an empty deceit, - according to the instruction of men, according to the first principles of the world, - and not according to Christ:

For Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts God of Israel, Let not your prophets that are in your midst nor your diviners beguile you, - Neither hearken ye unto your dreams which ye are dreaming;

Yea it shall come to pass, in that day, that the prophets, will turn pale, every man by reason of his vision when he prophesieth, - neither will they put on a mantle of hair to deceive.