Nave’s Topical Bible
Deceit
59 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Is falsehood
- The tongue is an instrument of
- Comes from the heart
- Characteristic of the heart
- God abhors
- Forbidden
- Christ was perfectly free from
- Saints
- Free from
- Purpose against
- Avoid
- Shun those addicted to
- Pray for deliverance from those who use
- Delivered from those who use
- Should beware of those who teach
- Should lay aside, in seeking truth
- Ministers should lay aside
- The wicked are full of
- Devise
- Utter
- Work
- Increase in
- Use, to each other
- Use, to themselves
- Delight in
- False teachers are workers of
- Preach
- Impose on others by
- Sport themselves with
- Hypocrites devise
- Hypocrites practice
- False witnesses use
- A characteristic of antichrist
- Characteristic of the apostasy
- Evil of
- Hinders knowledge of God
- Keeps from turning to God
- Leads
- To pride and oppression
- To lying
- Often accompanied by fraud and injustice
- Hatred often concealed by
- The folly of fools is
- The kisses of an enemy are
- Blessedness of being free from
- Punishment of
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See FLATTERY
See HYPOCRISY
Bible verses about “Deceit”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Psalms 119:118Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
- Romans 3:13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
- Mark 7:22Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
- Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- Psalms 5:6Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
- Proverbs 24:28Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
- 1 Peter 3:10For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
- Isaiah 53:9And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
- 1 Peter 2:22Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
- Psalms 24:4He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
- Zephaniah 3:13The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
- Revelation 14:5And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
- Job 27:4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
- Job 31:5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
- Psalms 101:7He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
- Psalms 43:1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
- Psalms 120:2Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
- Psalms 72:14He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
- Ephesians 5:6Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
- Colossians 2:8Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
- 1 Peter 2:1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
- 2 Corinthians 4:2But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:3For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
- Romans 1:29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
- Psalms 35:20For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
- Psalms 38:12They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
- Proverbs 12:5The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
- Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
- Proverbs 11:18The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
- 2 Timothy 3:13But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
- Jeremiah 9:5And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
- Jeremiah 37:9Thus saith the Lord; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.
- Obadiah 1:3The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
- Obadiah 1:4Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.
- Obadiah 1:5If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?
- Obadiah 1:6How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!
- Obadiah 1:7All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.
- Proverbs 20:17Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
- 2 Corinthians 11:13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.