Bible Verses About Deception
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for deception, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 9,146 votes, led by Galatians 6:7-8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Deception
Galatians 6:7-8494 votes
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Proverbs 10:9465 votes
He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
Proverbs 12:22413 votes
Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.
Psalms 52:2343 votes
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Romans 12:2314 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
James 1:22293 votes
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Galatians 5:16-26280 votes
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
John 8:44250 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.
Proverbs 11:3209 votes
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Luke 6:31174 votes
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
Ephesians 4:31-32172 votes
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Colossians 3:9171 votes
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Mark 7:20-22163 votes
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
1 John 4:1163 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.
2 Peter 2:1-22123 votes
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Genesis 3:4121 votes
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
2 Corinthians 11:399 votes
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
James 1:2699 votes
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-1298 votes
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
Proverbs 24:2895 votes
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
Jeremiah 17:993 votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
James 4:192 votes
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Revelation 21:891 votes
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Galatians 6:789 votes
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Revelation 12:986 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.
What does the Bible say about deception?
Readers most often cite Galatians 6:7-8 on the subject of deception. Across 9,146 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 10:9, Proverbs 12:22, Psalms 52:2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.