'Deceit' in the Bible
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellers of peace is joy.
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;
Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.