19 Bible Verses about Deception In Fallen Human Nature

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit."

For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.

For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they devise words of deceit.

The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.

Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

"Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips."

Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long.

I said in my alarm, "All mankind are liars."

The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer. Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.

Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.

Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and plunder-- no end to the prey!

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.

They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,

while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."