Quotes About Deception

But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.

But the magicians did the same thing by their magic arts, and they also brought frogs up onto the land of Egypt.

He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

or finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that a man might commit—

You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any manís wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him

by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),

So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.

Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, and behold, you have only blessed them!”

who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.

And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,

and if the sign or wonder he has spoken to you comes about, but he says, “Let us follow other gods (which you have not known) and let us worship them,”

that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),

But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.”

If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,

The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is proven to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,

You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.

Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.

So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab and said, “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, for they have come to spy out the whole land.”

But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.

At dusk, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I do not know which way they went. Pursue them quickly, and you may catch them!”