58 verses · KJV
Bible verses about Deceit
Every reference below is drawn from the topical index for “Deceit”. Tap any verse to read it in its full chapter.
118Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
22Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
6Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
28Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
10For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
9And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
22Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
4He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
13The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
5And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
7He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
14He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
6Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
8Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
2But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
3For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
20For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
12They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
5The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
18The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
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