Bible Verses about “deception”
The Bible contains 28 verses about deception across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”
“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”
“¶ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,”
“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:”
“Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
“[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
“‹Ye are of› [your] ‹father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.›”
“‹And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.›”
“And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”
“Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;”
“For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.”
“For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.”
“‹Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:›”
“‹For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,›”
“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”
“¶ Lying lips [are] abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly [are] his delight.”
“But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.”
“And he said, ‹That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.›”
“Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.”
“¶ He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.”
“¶ The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.”
“Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.”