38 Bible Verses about Deception

Then he began to anathematize and to swear, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.

Because many deceivers have gone out into the world, who do not confess that Jesus Christ is coming in the flesh; the same is the deceiver and the antichrist.

and sending them to Bethlehem he said; Having gone search diligently for the young child; and when you may find Him, notify me, in order that I, having gone, may worship Him also.

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he may be made manifest, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is.

Be not deceived: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

Let no one deceive you with empty words: for through these the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.

But we beseech you, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering unto him; that you be not suddenly shaken from your mind, nor disturbed, whether by a spirit, or through word, or a letter as by us, as that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one deceive you in any way: because unless there may first be an apostasy and the man of lawlessness may be revealed, the son of perdition,

For if any one seems to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one prove his own work, and then he shall have rejoicing to himself alone, and not to another;

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: for he recognized himself, and has gone away, and immediately forgot what kind he was. read more.
But the one having looked into the perfect law which is the law of liberty, and having remained in it, not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be happy in his work. But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain.

But if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Because you are saying, That I am rich, and have increased in riches, and have need as to nothing, and do you not know that you are miserable, and pitiful, and poor, and blind, and naked?

For if any one seems to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself.

But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

But if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

And they send to Him their own disciples along with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and that thou art teaching the way of God in truth, and there is not a care to thee for any one; for thou dost not look into the face of men.

And behold, a certain lawyer stood up tempting Him, saying, Teacher, having done what shall I inherit eternal life?

And it was the passover and feast of unleavened bread after two days. And the high priests and scribes were seeking how they might kill Him, having taken Him by stratagem.

And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold an estate

and sending them to Bethlehem he said; Having gone search diligently for the young child; and when you may find Him, notify me, in order that I, having gone, may worship Him also.