6 Bible Verses about Deception In Fallen Human Nature

Their throat is an open grave; With their tongues they have used deceit. The venom of asps is under their lips.

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.

From within, from the heart of man, proceed evil purposes??22 fornication, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, wantonness, envy, slander, arrogance, reckless folly??23 all these wicked things issue from within and defile a man."

They were overflowing with every kind of iniquity, depravity, greed, and malice. They were full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and malignity.

But wicked men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving others, and being themselves deceived.

By one of their own number, by a prophet of their own, it has been said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons."