38 Bible Verses about Deception

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

For many deceivers are gone out into the world, who do not confess Jesus the Messiah as come in the flesh. Such a one is a deceiver and an antichrist.

and sending them to Bethlehem said, Go, and procure the most exact information respecting this child; and when you have found him, bring me intelligence, that I may come, and pay him homage also.

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it is not yet evident what we shall be: but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him; because we shall see him as he is.

Be not deceived: evil conversations corrupt good manners.

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things, the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

NOW we entreat you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him: that ye be not hastily agitated with apprehension, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by discourse, nor by letter, as coming from us, as though the day of the Lord was instantly approaching. Let no man deceive you in any way: because that cannot be till the apostasy come first, and the man of sin appear, the son of perdition,

For if any man conceits that he is something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man bring his own work to the test, and then shall he have glorying in himself alone, and not [by comparison] with another.

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves by false reasoning. For if any man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man that looks at his natural face in a glass; for he beheld himself, and went away, and immediately forgot what sort of person he was. read more.
But he that looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and perseveres, this man not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be blessed in his practice. If any man thinks he is a religious character among you, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

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

because thou sayest, I am rich, and wallow in wealth, and have no want unsupplied; yet thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked.

For if any man conceits that he is something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

If any man thinks he is a religious character among you, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves by false reasoning.

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

And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God with veracity; and carest for no man, for thou regardest not the person of men:

And, behold, a certain doctor of the law arose, to make trial of him, saying, Master, by doing what shall I inherit eternal life?

NOW the passover and the feast of unleavened bread were but two days distant; and the chief priests, and the scribes, sought how they might seize him by craft, and kill him.

NOW a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, had sold an estate,

and sending them to Bethlehem said, Go, and procure the most exact information respecting this child; and when you have found him, bring me intelligence, that I may come, and pay him homage also.