'Deception' in the Bible
For they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity; their womb is pregnant with deception."
"If I've lived my life in the company of vanity, or run quickly to embrace deception,
Though malice disguises itself with deception, its evil will be exposed publicly.
Keep deception and lies far away from me, and give me neither poverty nor wealth. Feed me with food that I need for today,
Truly the hills are a deception, and the mountains are confusion. Truly, in the LORD our God is Israel's salvation."
You yourself live in the midst of deception, and because they are deceived they do not know me," declares the LORD.
LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in a time of difficulty, to you the nations will come, and from the ends of the earth they'll say, "Surely our ancestors inherited deception, things that are worthless, and in which there is no profit."
"Toward the end of their rule, as the desecrations proceed, an insolent king will arise, proficient at deception.
""In his place there will arise a despicable person, upon whom no royal authority has been conferred, but he'll invade in a time of tranquility, taking over the kingdom through deception.
Now as for the two kings, their intentions will be evil, and they'll promote deception at their dinner table, but none of this will succeed, because the end won't have come yet.