Deceits
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Psalms 38:12
- Last Reference: Isaiah 30:10
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
Is falsehood
Psalms 119:118
The tongue an instrument of
Romans 3:13
Comes from the heart
Mark 7:22
Characteristic of the heart
Jeremiah 17:9
God abhors
Psalms 5:6
Forbidden
Proverbs 24:28; 1 Peter 3:10
Christ was perfectly free from
Isaiah 53:9; 1 Peter 2:22
Saints:
Free from
Psalms 24:4; Zephaniah 3:13; Revelation 14:5
Purpose against
Job 27:4
Avoid
Job 31:5
Shun those addicted to
Psalms 101:7
Pray for deliverance from those who use
Psalms 43:1; Psalms 120:2
Delivered from those who use
Psalms 72:14
Should beware of those who teach
Ephesians 5:6; Colossians 2:8
Should lay aside in seeking truth
1 Peter 2:1
Ministers should lay aside
2 Corinthians 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 2:3
The wicked:
The wicked:
Romans 1:29
Devise
Psalms 35:20; Psalms 38:12; Proverbs 12:5
Utter
Psalms 10:7; Psalms 36:3
Work
Proverbs 11:18
Increase in
2 Timothy 3:13
Use, to each other
Jeremiah 9:5
Use, to themselves
Jeremiah 37:9; Obadiah 1:3; Obadiah 1:7
Delight in
Proverbs 20:17
False teachers:
Are workers of
2 Corinthians 11:13
Preach
Jeremiah 14:14; Jeremiah 23:26
Impose on others by
Romans 16:18; Ephesians 4:14
Sport themselves with
2 Peter 2:13
Hypocrites devise
Job 15:35
Hypocrites practice
Hosea 11:12
False witnesses use
Proverbs 12:17
A characteristic of antichrist
2 John 1:7
Characteristic of the apostasy
2 Thessalonians 2:10
Evil of:
Hinders knowledge of God
Jeremiah 9:6
Keeps from turning to God
Jeremiah 8:5
Leads to pride and oppression
Jeremiah 5:27-28
Leads to lying
Proverbs 14:25
Often accompanied by fraud and injustice
Psalms 10:7; Psalms 43:1
Hatred often concealed by
Proverbs 26:24-26
The folly of fools is
Proverbs 14:8
The kisses of an enemy are
Proverbs 27:6
Blessedness of being free from
Psalms 24:4-5; Psalms 32:2
Punishment of
Psalms 55:23; Jeremiah 9:7-9
Confidence, False; Deception; Falsehood; Flattery; Hypocrisy
DECE'IT,
1. Literally, a catching or ensnaring. Hence, the misleading of a person; the leading of another person to believe what is false, or not to believe what is true, and thus to ensnare him; fraud; fallacy; cheat; any declaration, artifice or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false.
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit Job 27:4.
2. Stratagem; artifice; device intended to mislead.
They imagine deceits all the day long. Psalms 38:12.
3. In scripture, that which is obtained by guile, fraud or oppression.
Their houses are full of deceit Jeremiah 5:27. Zeph. I.
4. In law, any trick, device, craft, collusion, shift, covin, or underhand practice, used to defraud another.
DECE'ITFUL, adjective
1. Tending to mislead, deceive or ensnare; as deceitful words; deceitful practices.
Favor is deceitful Proverbs 31:30.
2. Full of deceit; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; as a deceitful man.
DECE'ITFULLY, adverb In a deceitful manner; fraudulently; with deceit; in a manner or with a view to deceive.
The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully Genesis 34:13.
DECE'ITFULNESS, noun
1. Tendency to mislead or deceive; as the deceitfulness of sin.
2. The quality of being fraudulent; as the deceitfulness of a man's practices.
3. The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.
DECE'ITLESS, adjective Free from deceit.
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Psalms 38:12
- Last Reference: Isaiah 30:10
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance: