23 Bible Verses about Deceiving Oneself

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

He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

For you have trusted in your wickedness: you have said, None sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

Thus says the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.

Do not err, my beloved brethren.

For if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

For you were hypocrites in your hearts, when you sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

If any man among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

Be not deceived: evil companions corrupt good morals.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.

Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

For I heard the mocking of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my friends watched for my fall, saying, Perhaps he will be deceived, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for futility shall be his reward.

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

Your fierceness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you that dwell in the clefts of the rock, that hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD.

But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.