DECEIT

Passages on this topic · 66

• Job 15:35

  They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

• Job 27:4

  surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

• Job 31:5

  “If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

• Psalms 5:6

  You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

• Psalms 10:7

  His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

• Psalms 24:4

  He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

• Psalms 24:5

  He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the God of his salvation.

• Psalms 32:2

  Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

• Psalms 35:20

  For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

• Psalms 36:3

  The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

• Psalms 38:12

  They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

• Psalms 43:1

  Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

• Psalms 55:23

  But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

• Psalms 72:14

  He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

• Psalms 101:7

  He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.

• Psalms 119:118

  You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

• Psalms 120:2

  Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

• Proverbs 11:18

  Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

• Proverbs 12:5

  The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

• Proverbs 12:17

  He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

• Proverbs 14:8

  The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

• Proverbs 14:25

  A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful.

• Proverbs 20:17

  Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

• Proverbs 24:28

  Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

• Proverbs 26:24

  A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.

• Proverbs 26:25

  When his speech is charming, don’t believe him; for there are seven abominations in his heart.

• Proverbs 26:26

  His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

• Proverbs 27:6

  Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

• Isaiah 53:9

  They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

• Jeremiah 5:27

  As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

• Jeremiah 5:28

  They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t judge the right of the needy.

• Jeremiah 8:5

  Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit, they refuse to return.

• Jeremiah 9:5

  Everyone will deceive their neighbors, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

• Jeremiah 9:6

  Your habitation is in the middle of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 9:7

  Therefore Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?

• Jeremiah 9:8

  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.

• Jeremiah 9:9

  Shall I not punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?

• Jeremiah 14:14

  Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them, neither have I commanded them, neither did I speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.

• Jeremiah 17:9

  The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

• Jeremiah 23:26

  How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

• Jeremiah 37:9

  “Yahweh says, ‘Don’t deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us;” for they shall not depart.

• Hosea 11:12

  Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is unfaithful to the Holy One.

• Obadiah 1:3

  The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

• Obadiah 1:4

  Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

• Obadiah 1:5

  “If thieves came to you, if robbers by night — oh, what disaster awaits you — wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes?

• Obadiah 1:6

  How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!

• Obadiah 1:7

  All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.”

• Zephaniah 3:13

  The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”

• Mark 7:22

  covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

• Romans 1:29

  being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

• Romans 3:13

  “Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips”;

• Romans 16:18

  For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

• 2 Corinthians 4:2

  But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

• 2 Corinthians 11:13

  For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

• Ephesians 4:14

  that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

• Ephesians 5:6

  Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

• Colossians 2:8

  Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:3

  For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:10

  and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

• 2 Timothy 3:13

  But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

• 1 Peter 2:1

  Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

• 1 Peter 2:22

  who did not sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

• 1 Peter 3:10

  For, “He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

• 2 Peter 2:13

  receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

• 2 John 1:7

  For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

• Revelation 14:5

  In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.