Bible Verses About Consequences of Deceit

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.

The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit: he hath ceased to be wise, [and] to do good.

Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

Wickedness [is] in the midst of it: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall be their blood in his sight.

Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

The thoughts of the righteous [are] right: [but] the counsels of the wicked [are] deceit.

[He that] speaketh truth showeth forth righteousness: but a false witness, deceit.

Deceit [is] in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counselors of peace [is] joy.

The wisdom of the prudent [is] to understand his way: but the folly of fools [is] deceit.

Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;

[Whose] hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shown before the [whole] congregation.

Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took by force, or the thing which he obtained by deceit, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,

And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death: because he had done no violence, neither [was any] deceit in his mouth.

As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and have grown rich.

Why [then] hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: [one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

Then the LORD said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I have not sent them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoken to them: they prophesy to you a false vision and divination, and a thing of naught, and the deceit of their heart.

How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yes, [they are] prophets of the deceit of their own heart;

Ephraim encompasseth me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.

Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshhold, who fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness;

Beware lest any man make a prey of you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them that are] quiet in the land.

They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Favor [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

Thy habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

[He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

For our exhortation [was] not from deceit, nor from impurity, nor in guile;