Quotes about Deceit

If you act deceitfully, God's blight and ruin will be upon you. What may be craftiness for you, may not be for others—God has called you to a higher standard. Never dull your sense of being your utmost for His highest—your best for His glory.

But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”

But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.

“As soon as I leave you,” Moses said, “I will pray to the LORD, so that tomorrow the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh and his officials and his people. But Pharaoh must not act deceitfully again by refusing to let the people go and sacrifice to the LORD.”

For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”

God sent a spirit of animosity between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem and caused them to treat Abimelech deceitfully,

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

For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

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