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21 Bible Verses About Deception

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Summary

  • Jesus calls the devil “a liar and the father of lies” in John 8:44, and Genesis 3:13 records the woman saying, “The serpent deceived me.”
  • Jeremiah 17:9 calls the heart “deceitful above all things,” and the next verse says the Lord searches the heart.
  • James 1:22, Galatians 6:3 and 1 John 1:8 each describe people deceiving themselves: by hearing without doing, by thinking too highly of themselves, and by denying their sin.
  • Jesus gives fruit as the test for false prophets (Matthew 7:16), and 1 John 4:2 tests a spirit by whether it acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.
  • In Acts 5 Peter says Ananias was free to keep the money; the lie about it was the offence.

The Bible says deception comes from the devil, from other people and from a person’s own heart. Jesus calls the devil “a liar and the father of lies” (John 8:44), Jesus and Peter warn of false prophets and teachers (Matthew 7:15; 2 Peter 2:1-3), and Jeremiah 17:9 calls the heart “deceitful above all things.” The serpent’s promise to the woman in Genesis 3:4-5 mixes a lie with something true, and Paul warns that Satan “masquerades as an angel of light”…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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