Bible Verses About Being Deceived
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for being deceived, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,575 votes, led by 1 John 4:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Being Deceived
1 John 4:1224 votes
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Romans 16:17-18214 votes
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
Colossians 2:8193 votes
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
2 Timothy 3:13173 votes
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10132 votes
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Revelation 12:9114 votes
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
1 Corinthians 6:9101 votes
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
2 Thessalonians 2:10-1199 votes
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Matthew 7:21-2398 votes
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
John 8:4488 votes
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Galatians 6:788 votes
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Titus 3:3-778 votes
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
2 Corinthians 11:13-1576 votes
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
Galatians 6:7-970 votes
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Matthew 24:2464 votes
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
1 John 1:964 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Genesis 3:163 votes
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
1 Timothy 4:160 votes
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Ephesians 5:657 votes
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
2 Thessalonians 2:357 votes
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
John 14:656 votes
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Romans 16:1856 votes
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
2 Timothy 3:556 votes
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Isaiah 59:1-255 votes
Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
1 Timothy 2:1452 votes
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
What does the Bible say about being deceived?
Readers most often cite 1 John 4:1 on the subject of being deceived. Across 4,575 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 16:17-18, Colossians 2:8, 2 Timothy 3:13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.