6 Bible Verses about Deception In Fallen Human Nature

their throat is an opened tomb, with their tongues they practise deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips.

For from the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies:

for from within, from the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, covetousness, malice, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

being filled with all wickedness, malice, covetousness, vice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions, whisperers,

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

A certain one of them, their own poet, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gormandizers.