23 Bible Verses about Deceiving Oneself

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

covetings, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, reviling, pride, foolishness.

For thou have trusted in thy wickedness. Thou have said, None sees me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it has perverted thee. And thou have said in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.

Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise.

Thus says LORD: Do not deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us. For they shall not depart.

Be not led astray, my beloved brothers.

For if some man presumes to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

But become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

For ye have dealt deceitfully against your own souls. For ye sent me to LORD your God, saying, Pray for us to LORD our God, and according to all that LORD our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it.

The wisdom of a prudent man is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

If any man among you seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is futile.

If we say that we have no sin, we lead ourselves astray, and the truth is not in us.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.

Be not led astray. Evil associations corrupt good habits.

Be not misled, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows this he will also reap.

Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them,

For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we sha

Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself. For vanity shall be his recompense.

For sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

As for thy formidableness, the pride of thy heart has deceived thee, O thou who dwells in the clefts of the rock, who holds the height of the hill. Though thou should make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from

But exhort each other during each day, while it is called Today, lest any of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of wealth, and the cravings about other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.