38 Bible Verses about Deception

Then he began to curse and swear, saying, "I never knew the man." Immediately the cock crew!

I say this because many deceivers are gone forth into the world, those who deny the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

Then he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and make careful inquiry about the child, and as soon as you have found him bring me word, that I, too, may go and worship him."

We are God's children now, beloved; what we shall be has never yet been made manifest. But we know that when he is manifested we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

Do not deceive yourselves. Evil companions ruin good morals.

Let no man deceive you with empty arguments, for it is these vices that bring down the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience;

Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to meet him, I entreat you, brothers, not to be "quickly shaken out of your wits" and not to be agitated either by a spirit or by a message, or by an epistle purporting to be from me, saying, "The Day of the Lord is at hand." Let no one deceive you by any means. For it will not come until after the Great Apostasy, and the revealing of the Man of Sin, the son of perdition,

If a man fancies himself to be somebody when he is really nobody he is deceiving himself. Let each one test his own work, and he will then have something to be proud of by comparing himself with himself, and not with any one else;

And become doers of the Word, and not merely hearers, deceiving yourselves. Because if any one is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for after he has looked carefully at himself, he goes away, and at once forgets what he is like. read more.
But the man who looks closely into the perfect law??he law of liberty??nd continues looking, this man will be blessed in his deed because he is not a hearer who forgets, but a doer who does. If a man thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own religion,

If we say, "We have no sin," we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

For you keep saying, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and do not know that you are the wretched one, and pitiable and beggared and blind and naked.

If a man fancies himself to be somebody when he is really nobody he is deceiving himself.

If a man thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own religion,

And become doers of the Word, and not merely hearers, deceiving yourselves.

If we say, "We have no sin," we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

So they sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians. "Teacher," they said, "we know that you are honest, and that you are teaching the way of God in sincerity; and are not afraid of any one, for you do not court men's favor.

Then a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him. "Master," he said "what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

Now two days later was the feast of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread. Both the chief priests and the Scribes were continually seeking how they might arrest him by a stratagem and kill him;

But a man named Ananias who, with his wife Sapphira, sold a farm of his,

Then he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and make careful inquiry about the child, and as soon as you have found him bring me word, that I, too, may go and worship him."