38 Bible Verses about Deception

Then he started to swear with the strongest oaths, "I do not know the man!" And at that moment a cock crowed.

For many impostors have gone out into the world??en who do not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in human form. That is the mark of the impostor and the Antichrist.

And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said to them, "Go and inquire particularly about the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, so that I may go and do homage to him too."

Dear friends, we are God's children now; it has not yet been disclosed what we are to be. We know that if he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

Do not be misled. Bad company ruins character.

Whatever anyone may say in the way of worthless arguments to deceive you, these are the things that are bringing God's anger down upon the disobedient.

As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, brothers, and our assembling to meet him, we beg you not to let your minds be too easily unsettled or wrought up, by any message of the Spirit or any utterance or letter purporting to be from me, to the effect that the Day of the Lord has already come. You must not let anyone deceive you at all. For that is not until the rebellion takes place and the embodiment of disobedience makes his appearance??e who is doomed to destruction,

For if anyone thinks he is somebody when he is really nobody, he is deceiving himself. Every man ought to test his own work, and then whatever satisfaction he has will be with reference to himself, and not in comparison with someone else.

Obey the message; do not merely listen to it, and deceive yourselves. For anyone who merely listens to the message without obeying it is like a man who looks in a mirror at the face that nature gave him, and then goes off and immediately forgets what he looked like. read more.
But whoever looks at the faultless law that makes men free and keeps looking, so that he does not just listen and forget, but obeys and acts upon it, will be blessed in what he does. If anyone thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives himself, his religious observances are of no account.

If we say, "We are without any sin," we are deceiving ourselves, and there is no truth in our hearts.

Because you say, "I am rich, I have become wealthy, I need nothing," and you do not know that it is you that are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked,

For if anyone thinks he is somebody when he is really nobody, he is deceiving himself.

If anyone thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives himself, his religious observances are of no account.

Obey the message; do not merely listen to it, and deceive yourselves.

If we say, "We are without any sin," we are deceiving ourselves, and there is no truth in our hearts.

So they sent their disciples to him with the Herodians, to say to him, "Master, we know that you tell the truth, and teach the way of God with sincerity, regardless of the consequences, for you are impartial.

Then an expert in the Law got up to test him and said, "Master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

It was now two days before the festival of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread. And the high priests and scribes were casting about for a way to arrest him by stealth and put him to death,

But a man named Ananias, who, with his wife Sapphira, had sold a piece of property,

And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said to them, "Go and inquire particularly about the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, so that I may go and do homage to him too."