Quotes About Deception

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.

They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;

The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,

from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,

whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.

For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.

Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.

winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers.

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,

to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give up all the wealth of his house.

Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.

Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.

She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him: