'Deceit' in the Bible

And he that is sown among the thorns this is he who hears the word, and the anxious care of this life, and the deceit of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

command, then, the sepulchre to be made secure till the third day, lest his disciples, having come by night, may steal him away, and may say to the people, He rose from the dead, and the last deceit shall be worse than the first.'

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

You have knowledge of what is said in the law, Do not put any one to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Do not get money by deceit, Give honour to your father and mother.

It was now two days before the Passover and [the festival of] Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes were searching for a deceitful way to arrest Jesus and kill Him;

At that time, when thousands of the people had come together, in such numbers that they were crushing one another, he said first to his disciples, Have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees, which is deceit.

But perceiving their deceit he said to them, Why do ye tempt me?

Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him, “Here is a true Israelite; no deceit is in him.”

and said, “You son of the Devil, full of all deceit and all fraud, enemy of all righteousness! Won’t you ever stop perverting the straight paths of the Lord?

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.

Instead, we have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God’s message, but commending ourselves to every person’s conscience in God’s sight by an open display of the truth.

But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.

For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.

Now granted, I have not burdened you; yet sly as I am, I took you in by deceit!

Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.

ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

I say this so that you may not be turned away by any deceit of words.

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved.

And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:

And Adam was not taken by deceit, but the woman, being tricked, became a wrongdoer.

But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,

Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.

But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

So rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.

He did not commit sin,and no deceit was found in His mouth;

For the one who wants to love lifeand to see good daysmust keep his tongue from eviland his lips from speaking deceit,

And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

We belong to God. The person who knows God listens to us. Whoever does not belong to God does not listen to us. This is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

woe to them! because in the way of Cain they did go on, and to the deceit of Balaam for reward they did rush, and in the gainsaying of Korah they did perish.