12 Bible Verses about Avoiding Deceit

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

Laying aside therefore all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all slander,

that as to your former way of life ye should put off the old man, who perisheth according to the lusts of deceit,

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, going astray, slaves to divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap;

Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things the wrath of God cometh upon the sons of disobedience.

Let no one deceive you in any manner; for [that day will not come] unless the apostasy shall have come first and the man of sin have been revealed, the son of perdition;

My children, let no one deceive you; he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

And this I say, that no one may impose on you by specious discourses.

For our teaching is not from error, nor from impurity, nor in guile;

through honor and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and true;

Beware lest there be some one who shall make a prey of you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ.