30 Bible Verses about Those Who Deceived

Jacob said to his mother: You know that Esau is a hairy man. I have smooth skin. Perhaps my father will touch me and find out that I am deceiving him. That way, I will bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing. His mother replied: Let any curse against you fall on me, my son. Just do as I say, and go and get the goats for me.read more.
So Jacob brought the meat to his mother. And she cooked the tasty food that his father liked. Then she took Esau's best clothes and dressed Jacob in them. She also covered the smooth part of his hands and neck with goatskins. She gave her son Jacob the good-tasting meal and the bread she had prepared. He went to his father and said: Father? Yes, he answered. Who are you, Son? Jacob answered: I am your older son Esau. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of the meat that I brought you. Then you can give me your blessing. Isaac said: How did you find it so quickly, son? Jacob answered: Jehovah your God helped me find it. Isaac said to Jacob: Please come closer. Let me touch you. Are you really Esau? Jacob went closer. His father touched him. He said: You sound like Jacob, but your hands feel hairy like Esau's. So Isaac blessed Jacob, thinking he was Esau. Isaac asked: Are you really my son Esau? Yes, I am, Jacob answered.

Isaac responded: Your brother deceived me. He has taken your blessing.

Jacob also tricked Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was leaving.

Laban said to Jacob: Why did you deceive me and carry off my daughters like women captured in war?

Why did you deceive me and slip away without telling me? If you had told me, I would have sent you on your way with rejoicing and singing to the music of tambourines and harps.

What have you done to me? Jacob asked Laban: Did I work for you in return for Rachel? Why did you cheat me?

Jacob's sons wanted to get even with Shechem and his father because of what happened to their sister.

He sent messengers to Abimelech at Arumah. They said: Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem. They are not going to let you enter into the city.

Then Michal took some idols, laid them in the bed, put a goat-hair blanket at its head, and covered the idols with a garment.

Saul said to Michal: Why have you deceived me like this? You let my enemy go. He has escaped! Michal said to Saul: He said to me: 'Let me go! Why should I kill you?'

The woman saw Samuel. She screamed and said to Saul, Why have you tricked me? You are King Saul!

Surely you know that he came to deceive you. He came to find out everything you do and everywhere you go.

He answered: Your Majesty, you know I cannot walk. I told my servant to saddle a donkey for me so I could go with you. But my servant left without me.

Moses answered: As soon as I leave you, I will pray to Jehovah. Tomorrow the swarms of flies will go away from you, your officials, and your people. But you must stop tricking us by not letting the people go to offer sacrifices to Jehovah.

I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me. My priests and my responsible men are dying. They look for food to give them new life.

Herod saw that the astrologers tricked him and he was furious. He sent soldiers to kill all the boys two years old and younger in or near Bethlehem. This matched the time he learned from the astrologers.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him. He said: Look an Israelite indeed. There is no deceit in him!

Through his policy he will cause deceit to prosper in his hand. He will boast about himself in his heart. In their security they will destroy many. He will even stand up against the prince of princes; but he will be destroyed without human power.

When they fall, they will be helped with a little help; but many will join them in their flatteries.

Ephraim surrounds me with lies, the house of Israel with deceit. Yet Judah is unruly against God, even against the Holy One who is faithful.

You say: When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit.

Therefore you should give a parting gift to (Micah's hometown) Moresheth-gath. The houses of Achzib shall be a place of deceit to the kings of Israel.

I will punish all who worship false gods and who steal and kill in order to fill their master's house with violence.

Just the same, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you by cunning.

Did I gain you by any of them whom I sent to you?

I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus gain you? Did we not conduct ourselves in the same mental disposition? Did we not walk in the same steps?

There will no longer be the light of a candle in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you. Your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your spiritistic practice all nations were deceived.

The beast was captured, and with him the false prophet that performed signs before him, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast, and those who worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.

God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem. The men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:

Then Joram turned his horses and fled. He said to Ahaziah: Broken faith, O Ahaziah!