Deceit

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• 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.

• Proverbs 14:5 OT

  A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out 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.

• Jeremiah 5:27 OT

  As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

• Jeremiah 5:28 OT

  They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

• Proverbs 14:25 OT

  A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful.

• Proverbs 26:24-28 OT

  A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart. When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart. His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness…

• Proverbs 14:8 OT

  The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

• Proverbs 27:6 OT

  The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

• Psalms 24:5 OT

  He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the God of his salvation.

• Psalms 32:2 OT

  Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

• Psalms 55:23 OT

  But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

• Jeremiah 9:7-9 OT

  Therefore Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people? Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in…

• Genesis 3:1 OT

  Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

• Genesis 3:4 OT

  The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,

• Genesis 3:5 OT

  for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”