Deceit

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Psalms 35:20 OT

  For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

• Psalms 38:12 OT

  They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

• Proverbs 12:5 OT

  The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

• Psalms 10:7 OT

  His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

• Psalms 36:3 OT

  The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

• Proverbs 11:18 OT

  Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

• 2 Timothy 3:13 NT

  But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

• Jeremiah 9:5 OT

  Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

• Jeremiah 37:9 OT

  “Yahweh says, ‘Don’t deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely depart from us;” for they will not depart.

• Obadiah 1:1 OT

  The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.

• Proverbs 20:17 OT

  Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

• 2 Corinthians 11:13 NT

  For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

• Jeremiah 14:14 OT

  Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.

• Jeremiah 23:26 OT

  How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

• Romans 16:18 NT

  For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

• Ephesians 4:14 NT

  that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

• 2 Peter 2:13 NT

  receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

• Job 15:35 OT

  They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

• Hosea 11:12 OT

  Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is unfaithful to the Holy One.

• Proverbs 12:17 OT

  He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

• 2 John 1:1 NT

  The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,

• 2 Thessalonians 2:10 NT

  and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

• Jeremiah 9:6 OT

  Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 8:5 OT

  Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.