38 Bible Verses about Deception

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And Jesus answered and said to them: Take heed that no one deceive you.

And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, in order that they may believe a lie,

Now I say this, that no one may deceive you by persuasive words.

and shall go out to deceive the nations that are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to bring them together to battle: the number of these is as the sand of the sea.

And Adam was not deceived: but the woman being deceived, was in transgression;

Be it so, indeed; I did not burden you; but being crafty, I caught you by deceit.

Let no one deceive himself: if any one among you is considered as wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

We are of God: he that knows God, hears us: he that is not of God, does not hear us: by this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

and with all the delusion of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, in order that they might be saved.

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

Then the Pharisees answered them: Are you also deceived?

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Deception » Religious persons guilty of

Deception » Deceivers

2 John 1:7

For many deceivers have entered into the world, who con fess not that Jesus Christ came in the flesh: this is the deceiver and the antichrist.

Deception » General examples of

Matthew 2:8

and sending them to Bethlehem, he said: Go, make strict inquiry for the young child: and when you have found him, bring me word, that I also may go and do him homage.

More verses: 2 Kings 5:22

Deception » Not letting anyone deceive you

2 Thessalonians 2:1-3

But, we beseech you, brethren, concerning the coming of; our Lord Jesus Christ, and our coming together to him, that you be not hastily shaken from the persuasion of your mind, nor be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by report, nor by letter as written by us, as though the day of the Lord is at hand. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that day will not come, unless the apostasy come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

Deception » What is deceit/deceitful

Deception » Who deceives themselves

Galatians 6:3-4

For if any one think himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself: but let each one prove his own work, and then he will have cause to boast with respect to him self only, and not with respect to another:

James 1:22-26

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man that looks at his natural face in a mirror: for he looks at himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what sort of person he is. read more.
But he that looks intently into the perfect law of liberty, and remains constant, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be blessed in his deed. If any one among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

Deception » Of self » Spiritual poverty

Deception » Instances of » Abraham, in stating that sarah was his sister

Deception » Who shall not be deceitful

Deception » Not being deceitful

Deception » Bread of deceit

Deception » Instances of » Joseph, in his ruse with his brothers

Deception » Of self » Conceit

Deception » Instances of » Hushai deceives absalom

Deception » Instances of » David feigns madness

Deception » Instances of » By absalom » When he avenged his sister

Deception » Of self » Spiritual bondage

Deception » Instances of » In representing to their father that joseph had been destroyed by wild beasts

Deception » Instances of » Jacob's sons, in entrapping the shechemites

Deception » Instances of » Amnon deceives tamar by feigning sickness

Deception » Instances of » Jacob and rebekah, in imposing jacob on his father, and jacob's impersonating esau

Deception » Instances of » The gibeonites, in misrepresenting their habitat

Deception » Instances of » Ehud deceives eglon, and kills him

Deception » Instances of » Delilah deceives samson

Deception » Of self » An unbridled tongue

Deception » Of self » Self-esteem

Deception » Of self » Careless hearing

Deception » Of self » Sanctimony

Deception » Instances of » The old prophet

Deception » Instances of » Job's friends

Deception » Instances of » By absalom » When he began his conspiracy

Deception » Instances of » Pharisees

Matthew 22:16

And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying: Teacher, we know that you are true, and that you teach the way of God in truth, and care not for any one: for you do not look upon the person of men.

Deception » Instances of » Gehazi

Deception » Instances of » Lawyer

Luke 10:25

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up to tempt him, and said: Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

Deception » Instances of » Isaac, in stating that his wife was his sister

Deception » Instances of » Chief priests

Mark 14:1

After two days was the passover and the feast of unleavened bread; and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and kill him.

Deception » Instances of » Doeg

Deception » Instances of » Ananias and sapphira

Acts 5:1

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,

Deception » Instances of » By satan

Deception » Instances of » Herod

Matthew 2:8

and sending them to Bethlehem, he said: Go, make strict inquiry for the young child: and when you have found him, bring me word, that I also may go and do him homage.

Deception » Instances of » Sanballat tries to deceive nehemiah

Falsehood » Instances of » Gibeonites » Deception

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