deceivable
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I am confident that most if not all the miscarriages of the saints and people of God have their rise from deceivable thoughts here.
From The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works by John Bunyan
Now these are many times carried away by deceivable doctrines: And truly in this our God hath both a care of his own glory, and of his church's welfare.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan
Hooker has unaptest; Locke, more uncorrupted; Holder, more undeceivable: for these the proper expressions would have been the opposite signs without the negation: least apt, less corrupted, less deceivable.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
Show me thy humble heart, and not thy knee, Whose duty is deceivable and false.
From King Richard II by William Shakespeare
Therefore it is good to consider of deformity, not as a sign, which is more deceivable; but as a cause, which seldom faileth of the effect.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
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