And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
And 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.
Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, [and] from a deceitful tongue.
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
The thoughts of the righteous [are] right: [but] the counsels of the wicked [are] deceit.
They return, [but] not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this [shall be] their derision in the land of Egypt.
For our exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:
Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will entreat the LORD that the swarms [of flies] may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.
[He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
And after the league [made] with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them that are] quiet in the land.
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Cursed [be] he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed [be] he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
Thou lovest all devouring words, O [thou] deceitful tongue.
Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Beware 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.
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
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