Bible Verses about 'Deceit'
- Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil:
but to the counsellors of peace is joy. - Deliver my soul, O Lord,
from lying lips,
and from a deceitful tongue. - Keep thy tongue from evil,
and thy lips from speaking guile. - And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
- Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain:
but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
- He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
- A wholesome tongue is a tree of life:
but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit. - The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked: who can know it?
I the Lord search the heart,
I try the reins,
even to give every man according to his ways,
and according to the fruit of his doings. - The wicked worketh a deceitful work:
but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward. - Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
- He is the Rock, his work is perfect:
for all his ways are judgment:
a God of truth and without iniquity,
just and right is he. - Put away from thee a froward mouth,
and perverse lips put far from thee.
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 
