9 Bible Verses about Deceit

"Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips;

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and we have made a vision with hell; when the overwhelming rod shall pass through, it shall not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood,

For its rich men are full of violence, and its people have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, and has not sworn deceitfully.

The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity nor speak lies, and a deceitful tongue shall not be found in their mouth; for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

And in their mouth was found no guile, for they were without blemish before the throne of God.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, dwelling in the clefts of the rock, his dwelling is lofty; saying in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

So says Jehovah: Do not deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us. For they shall not depart.

All the men of your covenant have dismissed you to the border; the men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and have overcome you. They are setting your bread as a snare under you; there is no understanding in them.

And those who seek my life lay snares for me; and those who seek my hurt speak sly things, and utter deceits all the day long.

The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

For they do not speak peace; but they think deceitful things against the quiet ones of the earth.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the Word of God, but by the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

For our exhortation to you was not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile,

And Jehovah said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in My name; I did not send them, nor have I commanded them, nor did I speak to them. They prophesy to you a false vision and a worthless divination, and a thing of no value, and the deceit of their heart.

How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? But they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,

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

Beware lest anyone rob you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

He who breathes truth shows forth righteousness, but a false witness deceit.

A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness will speak lies.

so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.

For they who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches they deceive the hearts of the simple.

Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, nor deceive with your lips.

For he that wants to love life and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile.

Go now to the flock, and bring me from there two good kids of the goats. And I will make them delicious things for your father, such as he loves.

And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau your first-born. I have done as you asked me. Arise, I pray you, sit and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me.

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

Therefore so says Jehovah of Hosts, Behold, I will melt them and try them; for what else can I do for the daughter of My people? Their tongue is a slaughtering arrow; it speaks deceit; one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lies in ambush. Shall I not visit them for these things? says Jehovah; shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

And the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die, for God knows that in the day you eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said to the woman, Is it so that God has said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

To the Chief Musician. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you boast yourself in evil, O mighty man? The mercy of God endures forever. Your tongue devises evil, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

And He put His grave with the wicked, and with a rich one in His death; although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

He who did no sin, nor was guile found in His mouth,

And those who seek my life lay snares for me; and those who seek my hurt speak sly things, and utter deceits all the day long.

The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

For they do not speak peace; but they think deceitful things against the quiet ones of the earth.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

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

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue are mischief and vanity.

The words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue are mischief and vanity.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh 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 vanity, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Blessed is the man to whom Jehovah does not charge iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

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

and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they might be saved.

For such ones are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.

For they who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches they deceive the hearts of the simple.

So says Jehovah: Do not deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us. For they shall not depart.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, dwelling in the clefts of the rock, his dwelling is lofty; saying in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? Though you rise high like the eagle, and though you set your nest between the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah. If thieves came to you, if destroyers by night (how you have been cut off!), would they not have stolen until they had enough? If the grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? read more.
How Esau is searched out! His hidden things are sought out! All the men of your covenant have dismissed you to the border; the men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and have overcome you. They are setting your bread as a snare under you; there is no understanding in them.

He who hates pretends with his lips and stores up deceit within him. When he makes his voice gracious, do not believe him; for seven hateful things are in his heart. He whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shown before the congregation. read more.
Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it; and he who rolls a stone, it will turn back to him. A lying tongue hates those afflicted by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

He who hates pretends with his lips and stores up deceit within him. When he makes his voice gracious, do not believe him; for seven hateful things are in his heart. He whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shown before the congregation.

And they took Joseph's tunic, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the tunic in the blood. And they sent the tunic reaching to the soles of the feet, and they brought it to their father. And they said, We have found this. Do you know whether it is your son's coat or not?

Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and grown rich. They have become fat, they shine. Yes, they go past the deeds of the wicked; they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.

And Jehovah said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in My name; I did not send them, nor have I commanded them, nor did I speak to them. They prophesy to you a false vision and a worthless divination, and a thing of no value, and the deceit of their heart.

How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? But they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,

And he changed his behavior before them, and pretended himself to be mad in their hands, and marked on the doors of the gate and let his spittle fall down on his beard.

The wicked makes a deceitful wage; but one sowing righteousness has a sure reward.

But evil men and seducers will go forward to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

A true witness delivers souls, but a deceitful witness speaks lies.

The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and grown rich.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue are mischief and vanity.

The words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

The wisdom of the wise is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

You have trampled all those who go astray from Your Precepts; for their deceit is falsehood.

being about to receive the wages of unrighteousness, deeming indulgence as pleasure in the daytime, and reveling in spots and blemishes, feasting along with you in their deceits,

and your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not allow him to hurt me.

And everyone will deceive his neighbor and will not speak the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, says Jehovah.

Why has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a never-ending backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers,

And Moses said, Behold, I will go out from you, and I will pray to Jehovah that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow. But do not let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Jehovah.

And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child. And when you have found him, bring me word again so that I may come and worship him also.

Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings,

He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence; and their blood shall be precious in His sight.

He who works falsely shall not dwell within my house; he who tells lies shall not stay in my sight.

Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and grown rich. They have become fat, they shine. Yes, they go past the deeds of the wicked; they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.

"Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips;

Ephraim circles around Me with lying, and the house of Israel with deceit. But Judah still rules with God, and is faithful with the saints.

The words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.

For many deceivers have entered into the world, who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the anti-christ.

thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

And after two days it was the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by craft and kill Him.

For such ones are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth evil, and their belly prepares deceit.

thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

You shall destroy those who speak lies; Jehovah will despise the bloody and deceitful man.

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a torrent; they pass away as the streams of torrents,

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

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried to deceit,

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

A true witness delivers souls, but a deceitful witness speaks lies.

and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they might be saved.

being about to receive the wages of unrighteousness, deeming indulgence as pleasure in the daytime, and reveling in spots and blemishes, feasting along with you in their deceits,

But evil men and seducers will go forward to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

The wicked makes a deceitful wage; but one sowing righteousness has a sure reward.

For many deceivers have entered into the world, who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the anti-christ.

Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, says Jehovah.

"Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips;

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers,

Why has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a never-ending backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.

And everyone will deceive his neighbor and will not speak the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land, so that they may dwell with me; he who walks in a perfect way, he shall serve Me. He who works falsely shall not dwell within my house; he who tells lies shall not stay in my sight.

And he answered, My lord, O, king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, I will saddle me an ass so that I may ride on it and go to the king, because your servant is lame.