Verses with the word deceit in the Old Testament (28 verses):
Job 15:35
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Job 27:4
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Job 31:5
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Psalms 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Psalms 36:3
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
Psalms 50:19
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Psalms 55:11
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Psalms 72:14
He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
Psalms 101:7
He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
Psalms 119:118
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
Proverbs 12:5
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Proverbs 12:17
He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
Proverbs 12:20
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
Proverbs 20:17
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Proverbs 26:24
He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;
Proverbs 26:26
Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.
Isaiah 53:9
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
Jeremiah 8:5
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Jeremiah 9:6
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
Jeremiah 14:14
Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
Jeremiah 23:26
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
Hosea 11:12
Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
Hosea 12:7
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Amos 8:5
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Zephaniah 1:9
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
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