28 Bible Verses about Deceit, Practice Of

'Ye do not steal, nor feign, nor lie one against his fellow.

'Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

'Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure;

God they profess to know, and in the works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

Thou destroyest those speaking lies, A man of blood and deceit Jehovah doth abominate.

Do I reckon it pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?

Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness -- deceit.

A faithful witness lieth not, And a false witness breatheth out lies.

A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.

My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.

Who goeth up into the hill of Jehovah? And who riseth up in His holy place? The clean of hands, and pure of heart, Who hath not lifted up to vanity his soul, Nor hath sworn to deceit.

O the happiness of a man, To whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit.

The remnant of Israel do no perversity, nor speak lies, Nor found in their mouth is a deceitful tongue, For they have delight, and have lain down, And there is none troubling.

God is a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

for 'he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips -- not to speak guile;

and in their mouth there was not found guile, for unblemished are they before the throne of God.

for the abomination of Jehovah thy God is any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.

And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!

Thou hast trodden down All going astray from Thy statutes, For falsehood is their deceit.

Sweet to a man is the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled with gravel.

The making of treasures by a lying tongue, Is a vanity driven away of those seeking death.

A slaughtering arrow is their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush, For these things do not I see after them? An affirmation of Jehovah, Against a nation such as this doth not My soul avenge itself?