12 Bible Verses about Avoiding Deceit

He who would love life and enjoy happy days, Let him keep his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking guile;

Therefore put away all malice, all deceit, insincerity, jealousy, and slander of every sort.

You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive;

For we were ourselves once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, passing our lives in malice and envy. We were hateful, and we hated one another.

Be not deceived. God is not mocked. Whatever a man sows, that will he also reap.

Let no man deceive you with empty arguments, for it is these vices that bring down the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience;

Let no one deceive you by any means. For it will not come until after the Great Apostasy, and the revealing of the Man of Sin, the son of perdition,

My children, let no one deceive you; he who is working righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.

And this I say, lest any one should mislead you with enticing words.

For my preaching was not grounded on a delusion, or on impure motives, on in deceit.

amid honor or dishonor, amid evil report and good report; as a deceiver and yet true;

Take care lest any man drag you away captive by his philosophy which is a vain deceit, following the traditions of men and the world's crude notions, and not Christ.