Topic
Deception
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Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. — read the full passage →
He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →
You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — read the full passage →
Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →
Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. — read the full passage →
The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t surely die,
even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, — read the full passage →
But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. — read the full passage →
Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place? — read the full passage →
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles. — read the full passage →
The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught; — read the full passage →
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;
Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed. — read the full passage →
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. — read the full passage →
Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. — read the full passage →
However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →
“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,
“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, — read the full passage →
He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. — read the full passage →
Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. — read the full passage →
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts; — read the full passage →
The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”
For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things. — read the full passage →
For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. — read the full passage →
Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
“‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another.
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret, it leads only to evildoing. — read the full passage →
He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him.
He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people. — read the full passage →
But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; — read the full passage →
For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, — read the full passage →
You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones. — read the full passage →
Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”
Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. — read the full passage →
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →
There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →
make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; — read the full passage →
He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. — read the full passage →
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. — read the full passage →
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →
“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”
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