6 Bible Verses about Deception In Fallen Human Nature

their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witnessings, blasphemies:

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, covetings, wickednesses, deceit, wantonness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

having become filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

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

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always false, evil beasts, idle gluttons."