11 Bible Verses about Deviousness

Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:

The way of man is perverse and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

For the perverse is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.

To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks perverse things;

He that walks in his uprightness fears the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despises him.

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their plans.

Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who are you, my son? And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau your firstborn; I have done according as you bade me: arise, I pray you, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me. And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD your God brought it to me.read more.
And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray you, that I may feel you, my son, whether you be my very son Esau or not. And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. And he recognized him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him. And he said, are you my very son Esau? And he said, I am. And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank. And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed: