6 Bible Verses about Deception, Christian Leaders Must Not

But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.

For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ.

For our entreaty nor from error, nor from uncleanness, nor in deceit: But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts: For neither once in word were we flatterers, as ye know, neither in a pretext of covetousness; God the witness:

Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain;

For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.