12 Bible Verses about Avoiding Deceit

" He that desires to live in prosperity, must restrain his tongue from detraction, and his lips from uttering falsehood:

Renouncing therefore every kind of malice, and knavery, hypocrisy, envy, and detraction, as new-born infants desire that mystical milk,

to quit the vicious habits of your former conversation, corrupted by deceitful passions:

for even we ourselves were once inconsiderate, disobedient, deluded, addicted to variety of passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, the deserving objects of mutual hatred.

be not deceived, God will not be mocked: for what a man soweth, that shall he also reap:

let no man mislead you by vain reasonings: for it is for these vices, that the wrath of God lights upon the incredulous.

don't be led into any mistake, because the previous rebellion does not yet appear, nor the man of sin throw off the disguise, that offspring of perdition:

dear children, let no man deceive you: only he that acts justly is just, as he is just.

I mention this, lest any one should deceive you by specious pretences.

for our doctrine was free from all imposture, avarice, and fraud.

in honour and disgrace, under infamy, and in repute: look'd upon as an impostor, while I say what is true;

beware lest any one seduce you by the vain illusions of philosophy, founded upon human traditions, and meer shadows, and not upon Christ: