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, so that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no one else.

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

So says Jehovah: Do not deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us. For they shall not depart.

Do not err, my beloved brothers.

For if anyone thinks himself to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself.

But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

For you used deceit against your souls when you sent me to Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us to Jehovah our God; and according to all that Jehovah our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it.

The wisdom of the wise is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

If anyone thinks to be religious among you, yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this one'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 practice the truth.

Do not be deceived; evil companionships corrupt good habits.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that he also will reap.

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

For I heard the slanders of many, Terror is all around! Expose! Yea, let us expose him! Every man of my peace is watching for my fall, saying, Perhaps he will be lured away, and we shall prevail over him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

Let not he being deceived trust in vanity; for vanity shall be his reward.

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

Your dreadfulness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who 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 Jehovah.

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 deceit of riches, and the lust about other things entering in, choke the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.