12 Bible Verses about Deceitful Hearts
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
if I have concealed my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my bosom, because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors--
For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.
Do not drag me off with the wicked, with the workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors while evil is in their hearts.
They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah
for he is like one who is inwardly calculating. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
If you say, "Behold, we did not know this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?
Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart. Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart; when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart;
He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, "Is there not a lie in my right hand?"
But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence."
while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
