28 Bible Verses about Deceit, Practice Of
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They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
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 cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth 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 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.
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
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 thy God.
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
Bread of 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 speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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