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Deceitful

Part of speech: Adjective

He was being deceitful.


  • People tend to change their behavior when they know they are being watched. - 55
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And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:
But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.   Genesis 34:13-16 


And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will entreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.   Exodus 8:29 


If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.   Exodus 21:8 


Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.   Leviticus 6:4, 5 


My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.   Job 6:15-17 


Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.   Job 13:7-10 


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


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


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


Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.   Psalm 43:1 


The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.   Psalm 52:2-4 


But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.   Psalm 55:23 


But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.   Psalm 78:57 


For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.   Psalm 109:2 


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


The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.   Proverbs 11:18 


A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.   Proverbs 14:25 


Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.   Proverbs 23:3 


Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.   Proverbs 27:6 


The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.   Proverbs 29:13 


Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.   Proverbs 31:30 


The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.   Jeremiah 17:9, 10 


Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.   Jeremiah 48:10 


And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.   Daniel 11:23 


They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.   Hosea 7:16 


Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.   Micah 6:11, 12 


The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.   Zephaniah 3:13 


He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.   Matthew 13:22 


And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.   Mark 4:19 


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.   2 Corinthians 4:2 


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


That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.   Ephesians 4:22-24 


But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.   Hebrews 3:13 



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This sort of behavior completely undermines everything we stand for. - Frederick Wellman - 203




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