3 Bible Verses about Deception, Satan's Power
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You are of your father the devil, and you wish to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, because there was no truth in him. When he may speak a lie, he speaks of his own: because he is a liar, and the father of the same.
but I fear, lest, as the serpent beguiled Eve by his craftiness, your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ. For if indeed one coming preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or you receive another spirit, which you did not receive, or another gospel which you did not receive, well do you bear with him. For I consider that I am not inferior to the chief of the apostles.read more.
If indeed rude in speech, but not in knowledge; but in every thing making manifest unto you in all things. Did I commit sin humbling myself that you may be exalted, because I preached unto you the gospel of God gratuitously? I robbed other churches, having received support for your ministry, and being present with you and being destitute, I burdened no one; for the brethren, having come from Macedonia, supplied my deficiency; and in everything I rendered myself not burdensome to you, and will so render. The truth of Christ is in me, that this glorying shall not cease unto me in the regions of Achaia. Why? because I do not love you with divine love? God knows. But what I am doing, I indeed will do, in order that I may cut off occasion from those wishing occasion, in order that in whatsoever they may glory, they may be found even as we are. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no wonder; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
whose coming is according to the energy of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood, and in all the deception of unrighteousness to those who perish; because they did not receive the divine love of the truth, that they might be saved.