9 Bible Verses about Deceit

“Their throat is an open grave,
With their tongues they keep deceiving,”
“The poison of asps is under their lips”;

Bread obtained by falsehood is sweet to a man,
But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
And with Sheol we have made a pact.
The overwhelming scourge will not reach us when it passes by,
For we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception.”

“For the rich men of the city are full of violence,
Her residents speak lies,
And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

I said in my alarm,
“All men are liars.”

He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood
And has not sworn deceitfully.

“The remnant of Israel will do no wrong
And tell no lies,
Nor will a deceitful tongue
Be found in their mouths;
For they will feed and lie down
With no one to make them tremble.”

And no lie was found in their mouth; they are blameless.

“The arrogance of your heart has deceived you,
You who live in the clefts of the rock,
In the loftiness of your dwelling place,
Who say in your heart,
‘Who will bring me down to earth?’

Thus says the Lord, ‘Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely go away from us,” for they will not go.

“All the men allied with you
Will send you forth to the border,
And the men at peace with you
Will deceive you and overpower you.
They who eat your bread
Will set an ambush for you.
(There is no understanding in him.)

Those who seek my life lay snares for me;
And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction,
And they devise treachery all day long.

The thoughts of the righteous are just,
But the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

For they do not speak peace,
But they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

For our exhortation does not come from error or impurity or by way of deceit;

Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds.

How long? Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even these prophets of the deception of their own heart,

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

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.

He who speaks truth tells what is right,
But a false witness, deceit.

A trustworthy witness will not lie,
But a false witness utters lies.

As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;

For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause,
And do not deceive with your lips.

For,
“The one who desires life, to love and see good days,
Must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Go now to the flock and bring me two choice young goats from there, that I may prepare them as a savory dish for your father, such as he loves.

Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me. Get up, please, sit and eat of my game, that you may bless me.”

But You, O God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction;
Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You.

Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, I will refine them and assay them; For what else can I do, because of the daughter of My people? "Their tongue is a deadly arrow; It speaks deceit; With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor, But inwardly he sets an ambush for him. "Shall I not punish them for these things?" declares the LORD. "On a nation such as this Shall I not avenge Myself?

The serpent said to the woman, "You surely will not die! "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”

Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man? The lovingkindness of God endures all day long. Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.

His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a rich man in His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth;

Those who seek my life lay snares for me;
And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction,
And they devise treachery all day long.

The thoughts of the righteous are just,
But the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

For they do not speak peace,
But they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation;
O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man!

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips,
From a deceitful tongue.

His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression;
Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression;
Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation;
O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man!

He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood
And has not sworn deceitfully.

How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity,
And in whose spirit there is no deceit!

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood And has not sworn deceitfully. He shall receive a blessing from the LORD And righteousness from the God of his salvation.

and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;

For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

Thus says the Lord, ‘Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely go away from us,” for they will not go.

"The arrogance of your heart has deceived you, You who live in the clefts of the rock, In the loftiness of your dwelling place, Who say in your heart, 'Who will bring me down to earth?' "Though you build high like the eagle, Though you set your nest among the stars, From there I will bring you down," declares the LORD. "If thieves came to you, If robbers by night-- O how you will be ruined!-- Would they not steal only until they had enough? If grape gatherers came to you, Would they not leave some gleanings? read more.
"O how Esau will be ransacked, And his hidden treasures searched out! "All the men allied with you Will send you forth to the border, And the men at peace with you Will deceive you and overpower you They who eat your bread Will set an ambush for you (There is no understanding in him.)

He who hates disguises it with his lips, But he lays up deceit in his heart. When he speaks graciously, do not believe him, For there are seven abominations in his heart. Though his hatred covers itself with guile, His wickedness will be revealed before the assembly. read more.
He who digs a pit will fall into it, And he who rolls a stone, it will come back on him. A lying tongue hates those it crushes, And a flattering mouth works ruin.

He who hates disguises it with his lips, But he lays up deceit in his heart. When he speaks graciously, do not believe him, For there are seven abominations in his heart. Though his hatred covers itself with guile, His wickedness will be revealed before the assembly.

So they took Joseph's tunic, and slaughtered a male goat and dipped the tunic in the blood; and they sent the varicolored tunic and brought it to their father and said, "We found this; please examine it to see whether it is your son's tunic or not."

'Like a cage full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit; Therefore they have become great and rich. 'They are fat, they are sleek, They also excel in deeds of wickedness; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the orphan, that they may prosper; And they do not defend the rights of the poor.

Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds.

How long? Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even these prophets of the deception of their own heart,

So he disguised his sanity before them, and acted insanely in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva run down into his beard.

The wicked earns deceptive wages,
But he who sows righteousness gets a true reward.

But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Bread obtained by falsehood is sweet to a man,
But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

A truthful witness saves lives,
But he who utters lies is treacherous.

The thoughts of the righteous are just,
But the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

‘Like a cage full of birds,
So their houses are full of deceit;
Therefore they have become great and rich.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.

His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression;
Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

“The heart is more deceitful than all else
And is desperately sick;
Who can understand it?

Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.

The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way,
But the foolishness of fools is deceit.

You have rejected all those who wander from Your statutes,
For their deceitfulness is useless.

suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you,

Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times; however, God did not allow him to hurt me.

“Everyone deceives his neighbor
And does not speak the truth,
They have taught their tongue to speak lies;
They weary themselves committing iniquity.

“Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit;
Through deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the Lord.

“Why then has this people, Jerusalem,
Turned away in continual apostasy?
They hold fast to deceit,
They refuse to return.

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,

Then Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you, and I shall make supplication to the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow; only do not let Pharaoh deal deceitfully again in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.”

And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the Child; and when you have found Him, report to me, so that I too may come and worship Him.”

Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

He will rescue their life from oppression and violence,
And their blood will be precious in his sight;

He who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house;
He who speaks falsehood shall not maintain his position before me.

'Like a cage full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit; Therefore they have become great and rich. 'They are fat, they are sleek, They also excel in deeds of wickedness; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the orphan, that they may prosper; And they do not defend the rights of the poor.

“Their throat is an open grave,
With their tongues they keep deceiving,”
“The poison of asps is under their lips”;

Ephraim surrounds Me with lies
And the house of Israel with deceit;
Judah is also unruly against God,
Even against the Holy One who is faithful.

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness.

Now the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to seize Him by stealth and kill Him;

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

“They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity,
And their mind prepares deception.”

deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness.

You destroy those who speak falsehood;
The Lord abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.

“My brothers have acted deceitfully like a wadi,
Like the torrents of wadis which vanish,

My lips certainly will not speak unjustly,
Nor will my tongue mutter deceit.

“If I have walked with falsehood,
And my foot has hastened after deceit,

My lips certainly will not speak unjustly,
Nor will my tongue mutter deceit.

A truthful witness saves lives,
But he who utters lies is treacherous.

and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.

suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you,

But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Bread obtained by falsehood is sweet to a man,
But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

The wicked earns deceptive wages,
But he who sows righteousness gets a true reward.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

“Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit;
Through deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the Lord.

“Their throat is an open grave,
With their tongues they keep deceiving,”
“The poison of asps is under their lips”;

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,

“Why then has this people, Jerusalem,
Turned away in continual apostasy?
They hold fast to deceit,
They refuse to return.

“Everyone deceives his neighbor
And does not speak the truth,
They have taught their tongue to speak lies;
They weary themselves committing iniquity.

He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning,
It will be reckoned a curse to him.

My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; He who walks in a blameless way is the one who will minister to me. He who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house; He who speaks falsehood shall not maintain his position before me.

So he answered, “O my lord, the king, my servant deceived me; for your servant said, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself that I may ride on it and go with the king,’ because your servant is lame.