19 Bible Verses about Deception In Fallen Human Nature
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The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?
For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.
His mouth is full of curses and deceptive, harmful words; his tongue injures and destroys.
For they do not try to make peace with others, but plan ways to deceive those who are unsuspecting.
The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.
The city's rich men think nothing of resorting to violence; her inhabitants lie, their tongues speak deceptive words.
"Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips."
Those who seek my life try to entrap me; those who want to harm me speak destructive words; all day long they say deceitful things.
Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. And all of his friends will tell lies about him. One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.
Ephraim has surrounded me with lies; the house of Israel has surrounded me with deceit. But Judah still roams about with God; he remains faithful to the Holy One.
Woe to the city guilty of bloodshed! She is full of lies; she is filled with plunder; she has hoarded her spoil!
For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.
They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,
But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.
A certain one of them, in fact, one of their own prophets, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."
