23 Bible Verses about Deceiving Oneself
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
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?"
coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, "No one sees me"; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me."
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
Thus says the LORD, Do not deceive yourselves, saying, "The Chaldeans will surely go away from us," for they will not go away.
For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. For you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, 'Pray for us to the LORD our God, and whatever the LORD our God says declare to us and we will do it.'
The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them;
For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! "Denounce him! Let us denounce him!" say all my close friends, watching for my fall. "Perhaps he will be deceived; then we can overcome him and take our revenge on him."
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment.
For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle's, I will bring you down from there, declares the LORD.
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
