6 Bible Verses about Deception In Fallen Human Nature

'Their throats are like opened graves; they deceive with their tongues.' 'The venom of serpents lies behind their lips,'

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts--murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.

For it is from within, out of the hearts of men, that there come evil thoughts--unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, Greed, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, haughtiness, folly;

They reveled in every form of wickedness, evil, greed, vice. Their lives were full of envy, murder, quarreling, treachery, malice.

but wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves.

It was a Cretan--one of their own teachers--who said: 'Cretans are always liars, base brutes, and gluttonous idlers'; and his statement is true.