12 Bible Verses about Avoiding Deceit

For, "He who wishes to love life, and to see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking guile;

Having, therefore, put away all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and envies, and all evil speakings,

that ye put off, as to your former manner of life, the old man, who is corrupt according to the desires of deceit;

For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving manifold desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man sows, the same shall be also reap;

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

Let no one deceive you in any manner; because that day will not come, unless the falling away come first, and the man of lawlessness be revealed??he son of perdition;

Little children, let no one deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous.

This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasive speech;

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile;

through glory and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

Beware, lest there should be any one who makes a spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceits, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ;