22 Bible Verses about Men Deceiving
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As a mad man who casteth fire-brands, arrows, and death, So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport?
And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
And behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.
Why then hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even to the priest every one dealeth falsely.
But evil men and seducers will become worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;
And said, O full of all subtilty, and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and have grown rich.
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
For there are many disorderly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which is by you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not revealed thy iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
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- Deceiving (26 instances)