'Deceit' in the Bible
He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing."
The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."
surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
"If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn't impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
"You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
He who practices deceit won't dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won't be established before my eyes.
for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.
whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although 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 have become great, and grew rich.
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.
Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn't send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is unfaithful to the Holy One.
Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.