Quotes About Deceit

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When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”

Judas did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money bag, he used to take from what was put into it.

Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property.

Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?

and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”

Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every manís conscience in the sight of God.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

For our appeal does not arise from deceit or ulterior motives or trickery.

Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,

As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.

“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”

For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.

These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.