12 Bible Verses about Avoiding Deceit

'He who would enjoy life And see happy days-- let him keep his tongue from evil And his lips from deceitful words,

Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all back-biting,

For you learned with regard to your former way of living that you must cast off your old nature, which, yielding to deluding passions, grows corrupt;

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked. What a man sows that he will reap.

Do not let any one deceive you with specious arguments. Those are the sins that bring down the Wrath of God upon the disobedient.

Do not let any one deceive you, whatever he may do. For it will not come until after the Great Apostasy, and the appearing of that Incarnation of Wickedness, that the Lost soul,

My Children, do not let any one mislead you. He who lives righteously is righteous--as Christ is righteous.

I say this to prevent any one from deceiving you by plausible arguments.

Our appeal to you was not based on a delusion, nor was it made from unworthy motives, or with any intention of misleading you.

Amid honor and disrepute, amid slander and praise; regarded as deceivers, yet proved to be true;

Take care there is not some one who will carry you away by his 'philosophy'--a hollow sham!--following, as it does, mere human traditions, and dealing with puerile questions of this world, and not with Christ.