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 can't deliver his soul, nor say, "Isn't there a lie in my right hand?"

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

Thus says Yahweh, Don't deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart.

Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

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

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

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.

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

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.

Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."

Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you 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 shall take our revenge on him.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.

for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.