12 Bible Verses about Avoiding Deceit

"For he that would love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile.

WHEREFORE putting far away wickedness of every kind, and all deceit, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all backbitings,

that ye put off respecting your former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful passions;

For we ourselves also in time past were thoughtless, disobedient, erroneous, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Be not deceived; God is not to be trifled with: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things, the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

Let no man deceive you in any way: because that cannot be till the apostasy come first, and the man of sin appear, the son of perdition,

My dear children, let no man deceive you: he who doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous:

Now this I say, lest any man pervert you with specious discourse.

And our exhortation originated not from delusion, or impurity, or from guile;

through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report: as deceivers, yet true men;

Beware that no man make a prey of you by means of philosophy and vain delusion, after the tradition of men, after the principles of the world, and not after Christ: