What Does the Bible Say About Deluding?

John 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

James 1:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

2 Timothy 3:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

While evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

James 2:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

1 Timothy 4:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,

Galatians 3:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Romans 6:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

1 John 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

James 1:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Galatians 6:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Galatians 3:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

2 Corinthians 12:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter.

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

Romans 12:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

John 10:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I and the Father are one.”

John 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Exodus 33:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

James 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

2 Thessalonians 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,

1 John 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.

2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2 Thessalonians 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

33 Bible Verses about Deluding

John 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

James 1:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

James 2:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Galatians 3:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 6:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 1:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 6:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 3:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 12:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 12:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 10:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Exodus 33:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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33 Bible Verses about Deluding

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John 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

James 1:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

James 2:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Galatians 3:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 6:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 1:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 6:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 3:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 12:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 12:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 10:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Exodus 33:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes