Deceit

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Psalms 101:7 OT

  He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.

• Psalms 43:1 OT

  Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

• Psalms 120:2 OT

  Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

• Psalms 72:14 OT

  He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

• Ephesians 5:6 NT

  Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

• Colossians 2:8 NT

  Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

• 1 Peter 2:1 NT

  Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

• 2 Corinthians 4:2 NT

  But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:3 NT

  For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

• Romans 1:29 NT

  being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

• 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 1:3 OT

  The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

• 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?