'Deceit' in the Bible
But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.
My lips certainly will not speak unjustly,Nor will my tongue mutter deceit.
“If I have walked with falsehood,And my foot has hastened after deceit,
You destroy those who speak falsehood;The Lord abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression;Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.
How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity,And in whose spirit there is no deceit!
Keep your tongue from evilAnd your lips from speaking deceit.
The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
“You let your mouth loose in evilAnd your tongue frames deceit.
Your tongue devises destruction,Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.
Destruction is in her midst;Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets.
But You, O God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction;Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.But I will trust in You.
He who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house;He who speaks falsehood shall not maintain his position before me.
Whose mouths speak deceit,And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Rescue me and deliver me out of the hand of aliens,Whose mouth speaks deceitAnd whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
He who speaks truth tells what is right,But a false witness, deceit.
Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil,But counselors of peace have joy.
The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way,But the foolishness of fools is deceit.
He who hates disguises it with his lips,But he lays up deceit in his heart.
His grave was assigned with wicked men,Yet He was with a rich man in His death,Because He had done no violence,Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
“Against whom do you jest?Against whom do you open wide your mouthAnd stick out your tongue?Are you not children of rebellion,Offspring of deceit,
‘Like a cage full of birds,So their houses are full of deceit;Therefore they have become great and rich.
“Why then has this people, Jerusalem,Turned away in continual apostasy?They hold fast to deceit,They refuse to return.
“Therefore I will give their wives to others,Their fields to new owners;Because from the least even to the greatestEveryone is greedy for gain;From the prophet even to the priestEveryone practices deceit.
“Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit;Through deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the Lord.
“Their tongue is a deadly arrow;It speaks deceit;With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor,But inwardly he sets an ambush for him.
“And through his shrewdnessHe will cause deceit to succeed by his influence;And he will magnify himself in his heart,And he will destroy many while they are at ease.He will even oppose the Prince of princes,But he will be broken without human agency.
Ephraim surrounds Me with liesAnd the house of Israel with deceit;Judah is also unruly against God,Even against the Holy One who is faithful.
“And I will punish on that day all who leap on the temple threshold,Who fill the house of their lord with violence and deceit.