19 Bible Verses about Deception In Fallen Human Nature

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

They conceive mischief, and bring forth evil, and their belly prepares deceit.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue are mischief and vanity.

For they do not speak peace; but they think deceitful things against the quiet ones of the earth.

The words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.

For its rich men are full of violence, and its people have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

"Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips;

And those who seek my life lay snares for me; and those who seek my hurt speak sly things, and utter deceits all the day long.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant his neighbor, and will walk with slanders. And everyone will deceive his neighbor and will not speak the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Ephraim circles around Me with lying, and the house of Israel with deceit. But Judah still rules with God, and is faithful with the saints.

Woe to the bloody city! It is a lie, and full of plunder; the prey is not withdrawn.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies;

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers,

But evil men and seducers will go forward to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

One of them, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.