Bible Verses About Deceit

Proverbs 26:23-2823 Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart. 24 A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart. 25 When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart. 26 His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly. 27 Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him. 28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin. Related Topics: Cheating Hate Hypocrisy Lying The Tongue
Jeremiah 9:4-94 “Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer. 5 Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity. 6 Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh. 7 Therefore Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people? 8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him. 9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this? Related Topics: Cheating Keeping Your Word The Tongue Truth
Jeremiah 17:99 The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it? Related Topics: Marriage Problems Nature Pride
Psalm 5:4-64 For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can’t live with you. 5 The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity. 6 You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. Related Topics: Cheating God's Wrath Hate Liars Lies
John 8:42-4742 Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me. 43 Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies. 45 But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me. 46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 47 He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.” Related Topics: Love Loving Others Lying Sin Truth
Colossians 3:5-105 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. 7 You also once walked in those, when you lived in them, 8 but now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth. 9 Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, 10 and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator, Related Topics: Cursing Dating Greed Lust Sexual Immorality
Hebrews 3:12-1312 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; 13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Related Topics: Accountability Encouragement Encouraging Others Going to Church The Heart
Micah 6:10-1310 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? 11 Shall I tolerate dishonest scales, and a bag of deceitful weights? 12 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech. 13 Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins. Related Topics: Cheating Grief Lying and Deceit The Tongue Wealth
Ephesians 4:22-2522 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit, 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth. 25 Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. Related Topics: Accountability Family Unity Honesty Keeping Your Word The Power of Words
Genesis 3:1-51 Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, 3 but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’” 4 The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die, 5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Related Topics: Evil Liars Lying Lying and Deceit Satan
Mark 7:20-2320 He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. 21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, 22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within and defile the man.” Related Topics: Adultery Lust Pride Sin The Heart
1 Peter 3:10-1210 For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. 11 Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.” Related Topics: Cussing Honesty Liars Lying The Tongue
Deuteronomy 25:13-1613 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light. 14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small. 15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. 16 For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God. Related Topics: Business Cheating Honesty Justice Money
1 John 1:5-75 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie and don’t tell the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son, cleanses us from all sin. Related Topics: Community Fellowship Hypocrisy Lying Purity
Proverbs 12:2222 Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight. Related Topics: Cheating Communication Integrity Money Truth
Leviticus 19:11-1211 “‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another. 12 “‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh. Related Topics: Business Cheating Cursing Liars Lying
2 Corinthians 11:13-1513 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles. 14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works. Related Topics: False Prophets Liars Light Lying Spiritual Warfare
Proverbs 6:16-1916 There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: 17 arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, 18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief, 19 a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers. Related Topics: Hate Pride Sin The Heart The Tongue
Psalm 101:3-83 I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me. 4 A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil. 5 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited. 6 My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me. 7 He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes. 8 Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city. Related Topics: Gossip Hypocrisy Lying Pride The Heart
Exodus 20:1616 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. Related Topics: Communication Honesty Liars Lies Lying
1 Peter 2:1-31 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow, 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. Related Topics: Babies Evil Growth Kids Sanctification
2 Thessalonians 2:8-128 Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the manifestation of his coming; 9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 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. 11 Because of this, God sends them a powerful delusion, that they should believe a lie, 12 that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Related Topics: False Prophets Free Will Liars Lying Satan's Tricks
Proverbs 19:99 A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish. Related Topics: Keeping Your Word Liars Lies Lying Lying and Deceit
Colossians 2:88 Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elemental spirits of the world, and not after Christ. Related Topics: False Prophets Non Believers
1 Peter 2:2222 who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.” Related Topics: Honesty Lying and Deceit
Revelation 21:88 But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” Related Topics: Adultery Death Drugs Hell Witchcraft
Job 27:2-52 “As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter 3 (for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils); 4 surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit. 5 Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me. Related Topics: Liars Lies Lying and Deceit
Proverbs 12:55 The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful. Related Topics: Cheating Liars Lying and Deceit
Psalm 10:77 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. Related Topics: Cheating Cussing Lying and Deceit The Tongue Vanity
2 Timothy 3:12-1512 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. 13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. 15 From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Related Topics: Faith Hypocrisy Salvation Satan's Tricks Suffering
Jeremiah 14:14-1514 Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart. 15 Therefore Yahweh says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, but I didn’t send them, yet they say, ‘Sword and famine will not be in this land.’ Those prophets will be consumed by sword and famine. Related Topics: Liars Lying and Deceit Visions
Romans 1:28-3228 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them. Related Topics: Gambling Gossip Jealousy Pride Sin
Psalm 52:2-52 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah. 4 You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue. 5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah. Related Topics: Liars Lies Lying The Tongue
2 Corinthians 11:33 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. Related Topics: Distractions Satan The Mind Women
Job 15:3535 They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.” Related Topics: Lying and Deceit
Ephesians 4:11-1411 He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; 12 for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 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; Related Topics: Doubt Evangelism
1 Corinthians 6:7-117 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers. 9 Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom. 11 Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God. Related Topics: Drinking Gambling Lust Relationships Sin
Psalm 36:33 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good. Related Topics: Lying and Deceit
Psalm 24:3-53 Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place? 4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully. 5 He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the God of his salvation. Related Topics: Cheating God's Holiness Honesty Liars The Heart
Deuteronomy 5:2020 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. Related Topics: Liars Lies Lying Lying and Deceit
Psalm 34:12-1312 Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? 13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies. Related Topics: Communication Evil Gossip Lies The Tongue
2 Peter 2:1-31 But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. 2 Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned. 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber. Related Topics: Greed Hypocrisy Keeping Your Word Liars Teachers
James 1:14-1714 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed. 15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death. 16 Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow. Related Topics: Change Father's Day Giving Gratitude Light
Matthew 24:23-2623 “Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘There!’ don’t believe it. 24 For false christs and false prophets will arise, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones. 25 “Behold, I have told you beforehand. 26 “If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness,’ don’t go out; or ‘Behold, he is in the inner rooms,’ don’t believe it. Related Topics: Miracles Satan's Tricks
Proverbs 12:1717 He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies. Related Topics: Cheating Truth
Romans 3:1313 “Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.” Related Topics: Cheating
Proverbs 11:11 A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight. Related Topics: Cheating Honesty Justice Lies Stealing
Ephesians 5:6-76 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. 7 Therefore don’t be partakers with them. Related Topics: Abuse Anger Bad Friends Lying and Deceit
Psalm 120:22 Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. Related Topics: Cheating Liars Lies Lying
Psalm 35:2020 For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land. Related Topics: Lying and Deceit
Revelation 13:11-1511 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. 12 He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. 13 He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people. 14 He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived. 15 It was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn’t worship the image of the beast to be killed. Related Topics: False Prophets Lies Lying Miracles The Devil
1 Timothy 2:11-1411 Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission. 12 But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;
Genesis 12:10-1310 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land. 11 When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at. 12 It will happen that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive. 13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.” Related Topics: Decision Making Doubt Immigration Liars Lying
Ezekiel 13:6-96 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but Yahweh has not sent them. They have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed. 7 Haven’t you seen a false vision, and haven’t you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but I have not spoken?” 8 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,” says the Lord Yahweh. 9 “My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.” Related Topics: Lies Lying Lying and Deceit Visions Witchcraft
2 Corinthians 4:22 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. Related Topics: God's Word Honesty Integrity Truth
Revelation 21:2727 There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life. Related Topics: Liars Lies Lying Lying and Deceit
Revelation 22:14-1514 Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. 15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. Related Topics: Animals Halloween Life After Death Lying Witchcraft
Psalm 43:11 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men. Related Topics: Lying and Deceit
Proverbs 24:2828 Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips. Related Topics: Liars Lies Lying and Deceit
1 John 1:1010 If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Proverbs 14:55 A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies. Related Topics: Liars Lies Lying Lying and Deceit
Hosea 12:7-87 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud. 8 Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich. I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.” Related Topics: Cheating Wealth
Genesis 31:6-96 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength. 7 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me. 8 If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked. 9 Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me. Related Topics: Cheating
1 Corinthians 3:18-1918 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.” Related Topics: Sanctification
Proverbs 14:2525 A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful. Related Topics: Cheating Liars Lies Lying Lying and Deceit
Psalm 32:22 Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit. Related Topics: Lying and Deceit
Hosea 11:1212 Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is unfaithful to the Holy One.
2 Kings 5:22-2722 He said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’” 23 Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him. 24 When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed. 25 But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, “Where did you come from, Gehazi?” He said, “Your servant went nowhere.” 26 He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants? 27 Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever.” He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow. Related Topics: Lies Lying and Deceit
Jeremiah 22:1313 “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire; Related Topics: Cheating
James 5:44 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies. Related Topics: Business Harvest
Nahum 3:11 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey. Related Topics: Keeping Your Word Liars Lies Lying and Deceit
Leviticus 19:35-3635 “‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. 36 You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Related Topics: Bribery Cheating Honesty
Isaiah 53:99 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. Related Topics: Lying and Deceit
2 John 1:77 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. Related Topics: Lying and Deceit
Galatians 6:7-87 Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. Related Topics: Cheating Evil Free Will Life Self Control
Numbers 23:1919 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good? Related Topics: God's Faithfulness God's Promises Lying The Mind Truth
Matthew 15:18-1918 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. Related Topics: Pornography Sexual Purity The Tongue
Psalm 119:118118 You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain. Related Topics: Lying and Deceit
Psalm 38:1212 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long. Related Topics: Cheating
1 John 1:88 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Acts 6:12-1412 They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, then brought him in to the council, 13 and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law. 14 For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.” Related Topics: Change
Genesis 26:6-76 Isaac lived in Gerar. 7 The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”
Proverbs 14:88 The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit. Related Topics: Cheating Lying and Deceit
Genesis 3:1313 Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” Related Topics: Women
Leviticus 6:1-51 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor, 3 or has found that which was lost, and lied about it, and swearing to a lie—in any of these things that a man sins in his actions— 4 then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found, 5 or any thing about which he has sworn falsely: he shall restore it in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. He shall return it to him to whom it belongs in the day of his being found guilty. Related Topics: Cheating Liars Lies Restoration Stealing
Proverbs 21:66 Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death. Related Topics: Honesty Liars Lies Lying The Tongue
Genesis 27:18-1918 He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” 19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.” Related Topics: Liars Lies Lying Lying and Deceit
Luke 18:2020 You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’” Related Topics: Honoring Your Parents Loving Your Mother Mother's Day Mothers
Luke 19:88 Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.” Related Topics: Generosity Poverty Repentance Wealth
Acts 5:1-41 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, 2 and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet. 3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4 While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.” Related Topics: Evil Satan The Holy Spirit Wives
Jeremiah 5:27-2827 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich. 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 defend the rights of the needy. Related Topics: Lying and Deceit
2 Chronicles 18:20-2220 A spirit came out, stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ “Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’ 21 “He said, ‘I will go, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ “He said, ‘You will entice him, and will prevail also. Go and do so.’ 22 “Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”
Proverbs 11:1818 Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward. Related Topics: Cheating Lying and Deceit
Revelation 20:7-107 And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war, whose number is as the sand of the sea. 9 They went up over the width of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God and devoured them. 10 The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever. Related Topics: False Prophets Liars
Revelation 12:99 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. Related Topics: Lies Lying and Deceit
Genesis 37:31-3531 They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood. 32 They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your son’s tunic or not.” 33 He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.” 34 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days. 35 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him. Related Topics: Liars Lies Losing a Child Lying Lying and Deceit
Proverbs 12:19-2019 Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary. 20 Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace. Related Topics: Cheating Communication Liars Peace Truth

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