Written by Pastor Jack WellmanTop 22 Bible Verses About Deception
The Bible consistently presents a picture of how sin and deception are closely related. Here are the top 22 Bible verses about deception to study and gain a deeper understanding of what deceit and deception really is and how we need to recognize it.
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He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.
- Psalm 24:4
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The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.
- Genesis 34:13
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You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
- Psalm 52:4
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You destroy those who speak lies; the LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
- Psalm 5:6
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those who are left in Israel; they shall do no injustice and speak no lies, nor shall there be found in their mouth a deceitful tongue. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”
- Zephaniah 3:13
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But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing.”
- Genesis 27:35
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What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you, you deceitful tongue?
- Psalm 120:3
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suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.
- 2 Peter 2:13
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For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.
- Psalm 109:2
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though his hatred be covered with deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
- Proverbs 26:26
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Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
- Micah 6:12
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but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
- Mark 4:19
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and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10
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Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
- Jeremiah 15:18
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And from the time that an alliance is made with him he shall act deceitfully, and he shall become strong with a small people.
- Daniel 11:23
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A truthful witness saves lives, but one who breathes out lies is deceitful.
- Proverbs 14:25
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None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.
- Romans 3:10-12
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Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
- Romans 5:12
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Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
- Proverbs 31:30
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
- Jeremiah 17:9
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You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
- Matthew 7:16
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for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
- Romans 3:23
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