79 Verses About Deceit from 24 Books

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 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.

2 Peter 2:13

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

Acts 13:10

and said, "Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?



Amos 8:5

Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

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.

Daniel 11:23

After the treaty made with him he shall work deceitfully; for he shall come up, and shall become strong, with a small people.

Ephesians 4:22

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

Additions to Esther 13:6

thus beguiling with the falsehood and deceit of their lewd disposition, the innocence and goodness of princes.

Additions to Esther 13:13

and, by manifold and cunning deceits, sought of us the destruction also of Mordecai, who saved our life and continually procured our good, as also of blameless Esther, partaker of our kingdom, with their whole nation.

Exodus 8:29

Moses said, "Behold, I go out from you, and I will pray to the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don't let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD."



Exodus 21:8

If she doesn't please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

Genesis 27:35

He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing."

Genesis 34:13

The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

Hebrews 3:13

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.

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.

Isaiah 30:10

who tell the seers, "Don't see!" and to the prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

Isaiah 53:9

They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, neither 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 8:5

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

Jeremiah 9:6

Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

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 14:14

Then the LORD said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn't send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

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 42:20

For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us to the LORD our God; and according to all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it:

Job 6:15

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

Job 13:7

Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

Job 15:35

They conceive mischief, and bring forth 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



John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"

Mark 4:19

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Mark 7:22

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

Matthew 13:22

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Matthew 26:4

They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

Micah 1:14

Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.

Micah 6:11

Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

Micah 6:12

Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

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 12:20

Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.

Proverbs 14:8

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





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