28 Bible Verses about Deceit, Practice Of

You shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, or weight, or quantity.

They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

Therefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking,

But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

You shall destroy them that speak falsehood: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

He that speaks truth shows forth righteousness: but a false witness, deceit.

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall perish.

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputes not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed their flocks and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Therefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds;

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.

For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD your God.

But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in you.

You have trodden down all them that stray from your statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait. Shall I not visit them for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?