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.
“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”
“And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.”
“envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.”
“Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,”
“idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,”
“Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,”
“Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.”
“gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”
“But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.”
“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.”
“Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.”
“You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.”
“"As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.”
“Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.”
“Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,”
“For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.”
“For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.”
“covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.”
“For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,”
“If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.”
“Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.”
“But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.”
“He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.”
“Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.”
“He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.”
“The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.”
“Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.”