19 Bible Verses about Deception In Fallen Human Nature

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

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

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

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath ceased to be wise, and to do good.

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

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

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

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

Ephraim encompasseth me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.

Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robberies; the prey departeth not;

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

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness;

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

But evil men and seducers will become worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

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