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.

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, / Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: / All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

Man is a mere phantom as he goes to and fro: He bustles about, but only in vain; he heaps up wealth, not knowing who will get it

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.