19 Bible Verses about Deception In Fallen Human Nature

The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who shall know it?

They conceive pain and bring forth iniquity, and their belly meditates deceit.

For there is no uprightness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful matters against those that are meek in the land.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit; he has left off to be wise and to do good.

With which their rich men are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips,

Those that seek after my life lay snares for me, and those that seek my hurt speak calamities and imagine deceits all the day long.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

The thoughts of the righteous are upright, but the astuteness of the wicked is deceit.

Take heed each one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. And they will deceive each one his neighbour and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Ephraim compasses me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah yet rules with God and is faithful with the saints.

Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; stealing does not depart from her!

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth the evil thoughts, the adulteries, the fornications, the murders, the thefts, the covetousness, the wickedness, the deceit, the lasciviousness, the evil eye, the slander, the pride, the unwiseness:

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies.