'Deceit' in the Bible

When David's oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, he became angry with David and said, "Why have you come down here? To whom did you entrust those few sheep in the desert? I am familiar with your pride and deceit! You have come down here to watch the battle!"

my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will whisper no deceit.

If I have walked in falsehood, and if my foot has hastened to deceit --

How blessed is the one whose wrongdoing the Lord does not punish, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Disaster is within it; violence and deceit do not depart from its public square.

They spend all their time planning how to bring him down. They love to use deceit; they pronounce blessings with their mouths, but inwardly they utter curses. (Selah)

Remove me from the path of deceit! Graciously give me your law!

I hate and despise deceit; I love your law.

The faithful witness tells what is right, but a false witness speaks deceit.

Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but those who promote peace have joy.

Bread gained by deceit tastes sweet to a person, but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

The one who hates others disguises it with his lips, but he stores up deceit within him.

Though his hatred may be concealed by deceit, his evil will be uncovered in the assembly.

Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.

"That is because, from the least important to the most important of them, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. Prophets and priests alike, all of them practice deceit.

So I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least important to the most important of them, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. Prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

By his treachery he will succeed through deceit. He will have an arrogant attitude, and he will destroy many who are unaware of his schemes. He will rise up against the Prince of princes, yet he will be broken apart -- but not by human agency.

"Then there will arise in his place a despicable person to whom the royal honor has not been rightfully conferred. He will come on the scene in a time of prosperity and will seize the kingdom through deceit.

Ephraim has surrounded me with lies; the house of Israel has surrounded me with deceit. But Judah still roams about with God; he remains faithful to the Holy One.

On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with wealth taken by violence and deceit.

adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.

But Jesus perceived their deceit and said to them,

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed, "Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!"

and said, "You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness -- will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

But be that as it may, I have not burdened you. Yet because I was a crafty person, I took you in by deceit!

For the appeal we make does not come from error or impurity or with deceit,

So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

He committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth.

For the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.

We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.