12 Bible Verses about Avoiding Deceit

he who would love Life and enjoy good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking guile:

So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind!

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

Make no mistake ??God is not to be mocked ??a man will reap just what he sows;

Let no one deceive you with specious arguments; these are the vices that bring down God's anger on the sons of disobedience.

Let nobody delude you into this belief, whatever he may say. It will not come till the Rebellion takes place first of all, with the revealing of the Lawless One, the doomed One,

Let no one deceive you, my dear children: he who practises righteousness is just, as He is just;

I say this to prevent you from being deluded by plausible arguments from anybody;

For the appeal we make does not spring from any delusion or from impure motives ??it does not work by cunning;

amid honour and dishonour, amid evil report and good report, an 'impostor' but honest,

Beware of anyone getting hold of you by means of a theosophy which is specious make-believe, on the lines of human tradition, corresponding to the Elemental spirits of the world and not to Christ.