For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.
No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?
Then the Lord said to me, The prophets say false words in my name, and I gave them no orders, and I said nothing to them: what they say to you is a false vision and wonder-working words without substance, the deceit of their hearts.
O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.
For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.
And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a shocking thing; they are untrue to their wives, walking in deceit, and they make strong the hands of evil-doers, so that a man may not be turned back from his evil-doing: they have all become like Sodom to me, and its people like Gomorrah.
Is (my word) in the hearts of the prophets who give out false words, even the prophets of the deceit of their hearts?
See, I am against the prophets of false dreams, says the Lord, who give them out and make my people go out of the way by their deceit and their uncontrolled words: but I did not send them or give them orders; and they will be of no profit to this people, says the Lord.
But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.
For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.
Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.
For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.
All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.
Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.
Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.
There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.
His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.
Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.
Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?
Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.
If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;
Acting with deceit, got food together as if for a long journey; and took old food-bags for their asses, and old and cracked wine-skins kept together with cord;
At that time, when thousands of the people had come together, in such numbers that they were crushing one another, he said first to his disciples, Have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees, which is deceit.
You have knowledge of what is said in the law, Do not put any one to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Do not get money by deceit, Give honour to your father and mother.
It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes made designs how they might take him by deceit and put him to death:
The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:
For this cause give a parting offering to Moresheth-gath: the daughter of Achzib will be a deceit to the king of Israel.
If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.
A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.
Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.
The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.
The breathing out of true words gives knowledge of righteousness; but a false witness gives out deceit.
Deceit is in the heart of those whose designs are evil, but for those purposing peace there is joy.
The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.
A true witness is the saviour of lives; but he who says false things is a cause of deceit.
A true witness does not say what is false, but a false witness is breathing out deceit.
The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.
A wrongdoer gives attention to evil lips, and a man of deceit gives ear to a damaging tongue.
A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.
A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will be cut off.
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but after, his mouth will be full of sand.
The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.
Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.
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