23 Bible Verses about Deceiving Oneself

The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?

As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.

The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:

For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.

Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

The Lord has said, Have no false hopes, saying to yourselves, The Chaldaeans will go away from us: for they will not go away.

Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers.

For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.

The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.

If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:

Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.

Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.

But take care that your hearts are not turned to false ways so that you become servants and worshippers of other gods;

For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.

For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.

... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.

But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:

And the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, and the desire for other things coming in, put a stop to the growth of the word, and it gives no fruit.