Deceit

Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?

They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”

…my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,

You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.

For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

A prayer of David. Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer—it comes from lips free of deceit.

Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.

You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.

Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.

But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who tells lies shall stand in my presence.

Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.

With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.

The plans of the righteous are just, but the counsel of the wicked leads to deceit.

He who speaks the truth declares what is right, but a false witness speaks deceit.

Deceit is in the hearts of those who devise evil, but the counselors of peace have joy.

A hateful man disguises himself with his speech, but he lays up deceit in his heart.

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,

Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,

He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit,

Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.

“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.

Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.

Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.

You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.

Through his craft and by his hand, he will cause deceit to prosper, and in his own mind he will make himself great. In a time of peace he will destroy many, and he will even stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be broken off, but not by human hands.

When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets.

Ephraim surrounds Me with lies, the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.

On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.

For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.

…greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”

…and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”

Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

For our appeal does not arise from deceit or ulterior motives or trickery.

Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.

“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”