You love to use all the words that destroy, ¹  and the tongue that deceives.

so is a person ¹  who deceives his neighbor, and says, “Was I not only joking?” ² 

Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, ¹  and new wine only deceives them. ² 

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

Would it turn out well if he would examine ¹  you? Or as one deceives ²  a man would you deceive him?

I have received a distressing message: ¹  “The deceiver deceives, the destroyer destroys. Attack, you Elamites! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning!” ² 

One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves ¹  to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.

There was ¹  a lot of grumbling ²  about him among the crowds. ³  Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others, “He deceives the common people.” ⁴ 

If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.

But I have this against you: You tolerate that ¹  woman ²  Jezebel, ³  who calls herself a prophetess, and by her teaching deceives ⁴  my servants ⁵  to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. ⁶ 

So ¹  that huge dragon – the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world – was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.