19 Bible Verses about Deception In Fallen Human Nature

Among all things living, man hath the most deceitful and unsearchable heart. Who shall then know it?

He conceiveth travail, he beareth mischief, and his body bringeth forth deceit."

For there is no faithfulness in their mouths; they dissemble in their hearts. Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit and fraud; under his tongue is travail and sorrow.

And why? Their communing is not for peace, but they imagine deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.

The words of his mouth are unrighteous and full of deceit; he hath left off to behave himself wisely, and to do good.

among those that be full of riches unrighteously gotten: where the citizens deal with falsity, speak lies, and have deceitful tongues in their mouths?

"Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they have deceived." "The poison of Asps is under their lips."

They also that sought after my life laid snares for me; and they that went about to do me evil talked of wickedness, and imagined deceit all the day long.

I said in my haste, "All men are liars."

The thoughts of the righteous are right; but the imagination of the ungodly are deceitful.

Yea, one must keep himself from another; no man may safely trust his own brother. For one brother undermineth another, and one neighbour begileth another. Yea, one dissesembleth with another, and they deal with no truth. They have practiced their tongues to lie, and taken great pains to do mischief.

But Ephraim goeth about me with lies, and the house of Israel dissembleth. Only Judah holdeth him with God, and with the true holy things.

Woe to that bloodthirsty city, which is all full of lies and robbery, and will not leave off from ravishing.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, breaking of wedlock, whoredom, theft, false witness-bearing, blasphemy.

For from within even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts: adultery, fornication, murder, theft, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, uncleanness, and a wicked eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

being full of all unrighteous doing: of fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, evil-conditioned whisperers,

But the evil men and deceivers, shall wax worse and worse, while they deceive, and are deceived themselves.

One being of themselves, which was a poet of their own said, "The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and slow bellies."