End Time-The Problems: Deceit

Quote:
Of all the evil spirits abroad in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. – Froude

Is falsehood:
Psalms 119:118 Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

The tongue an instrument of:
Romans 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

Comes from the heart:
Mark 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

Characteristic of the heart:
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

God abhors:
Psalms 5:6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

Forbidden:
Proverbs 24:28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

1Peter 3:10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

Christ was perfectly free from:
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.
...with
1Peter 2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

Saints free from:
Psalms 24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Revelation 14:5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.

Avoid:
Job 31:5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

Shun those addicted to:
Psalms 101:7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

Pray for deliverance from those who use:
Psalms 43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Psa 120:2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

Delivered from those who use:
Psalms 72:14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

Should beware of those who teach:
Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Should lay aside in seeking truth:
1Peter 2:1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Ministers should lay aside:
2Corinthians 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of
God.

1Thessalonians 2:3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

Wicked full of:
Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Wicked devise:
Psalms 35:20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

Psalms 38:12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

Wicked utter:
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.

Wicked increase in:
2Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

Wicked delight in:
Proverbs 20:17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

False teachers are workers of:
2Corinthians 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

False teachers preach:
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;

False teachers impose other by:
Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

Ephesians 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

Hypocrites devise:
Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

Hypocrites practice:
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.

False witnesses use:
Proverbs 12:17 He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.

Keeps from turning to God:
Jeremiah 8:5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.