12 Bible Verses about Deceitful Hearts

The heart [is] deceitful more than anything else, and it [is] disastrous. Who can understand it?

{Have I concealed} my transgressions as [other] human beings to hide my iniquity in my bosom because I dreaded [the] great multitude, and [the] contempt of clans terrified me, so that I kept quiet, I did not go out of [the] doorway?

For there is not [anything] reliable in his mouth; their inner part [is] destruction. Their throat is an open grave; [with] their tongue they speak deceit.

Do not drag me away with [the] wicked or with [the] workers of evil, [who] speak of peace with their neighbors, while evil [is] in their heart.

They only plan to thrust [him] down from his high position; they are pleased [with] deception. With their mouths they bless, but {inwardly} they curse. Selah

perversion in his heart, he devises evil; at all times he will send out discord.

For, like hair in his {throat}, so it is. "Eat and drink!" he will say to you, but his heart will not be with you.

if you say, "Look, we do not know this," does not he who weighs hearts perceive [it]? And he who keeps your soul, he knows and will repay humankind according to his deeds.

[Like] {impure silver} which overlays an earthen vessel, [so are] smooth lips and an evil heart. On his lips, an enemy will pretend, but {inside} he will harbor deceit. When he makes his voice gracious, do not believe him, for seven abominations [are] in his heart.

[He] feeds [on] ashes; a {deceived mind} misleads him. And he cannot save {himself}, and he cannot say, "Is [this] not an illusion in my right hand?"

"But there is nothing [in] your eyes and your heart {except} your unlawful gain, and on shedding the blood of the innocent, and on committing oppression and extortion."

But evil people and imposters will progress to the worse, deceiving and being deceived.