22 Bible Verses about Men Deceiving
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Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
As one pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death, So hath a man deceived his neighbour, And hath said, 'Am not I playing?'
And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.
That, lo, all the women who have been left in the house of the king of Judah are brought forth unto the heads of the king of Babylon, and lo, they are saying: Persuaded thee, and prevailed against thee, Have thine allies, Sunk into mire have thy feet, They have been turned backward.
Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem Turned back -- a perpetual backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, They have refused to turn back.
Therefore, I give their wives to others, Their fields to dispossessors, For from the least even unto the greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, From prophet even unto priest, every one is dealing falsely.
and evil men and impostors shall advance to the worse, leading astray and being led astray.
By his lips doth a hater dissemble, And in his heart he placeth deceit,
said, 'O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord?
having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,
As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.
for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,
Sweet to a man is the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled with gravel.
And after they join themselves unto him, he worketh deceit, and hath increased, and hath been strong by a few of the nation.
for those such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,
for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --
lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you -- doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;
if we may say -- 'we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth;
Thy prophets have seen for thee a false and insipid thing, And have not revealed concerning thine iniquity, To turn back thy captivity, And they see for thee false burdens and causes of expulsion.
