11 Bible Verses about Deception, Christians Must Not Practice

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.

Who goeth up into the hill of Jehovah? And who riseth up in His holy place? The clean of hands, and pure of heart, Who hath not lifted up to vanity his soul, Nor hath sworn to deceit.

O the happiness of a man, To whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit.

The remnant of Israel do no perversity, nor speak lies, Nor found in their mouth is a deceitful tongue, For they have delight, and have lain down, And there is none troubling.

God is a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

for 'he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips -- not to speak guile;

and in their mouth there was not found guile, for unblemished are they before the throne of God.