31 Bible Verses about Being Mislead

Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.

Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.

I say this so that you may not be turned away by any deceit of words.

The upright man is a guide to his neighbour, but the way of evil-doers is a cause of error to them.

For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.

Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens, a land of oil-giving olives and of honey, so that life and not death may be your fate. Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe.

This is what the king says: Do not be tricked by Hezekiah, for there is no salvation for you in him.

Then the Pharisees said to them, Have you, like the others, been given false ideas?

But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods.

As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

For the guides of this people are the cause of their wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them come to destruction.

And I have seen ways without sense in the prophets of Samaria; they became prophets of the Baal, causing my people Israel to go wrong.

Because, even because they have been guiding my people into error, saying, Peace; when there is no peace; and in the building of a division wall they put whitewash on it:

This is what the Lord has said about the prophets by whom my people have been turned from the right way; who, biting with their teeth, say, Peace; and if anyone puts nothing in their mouths they make ready for war against him.

My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.

See, I am against the prophets of false dreams, says the Lord, who give them out and make my people go out of the way by their deceit and their uncontrolled words: but I did not send them or give them orders; and they will be of no profit to this people, says the Lord.

The chiefs of Zoan have become foolish, the chiefs of Noph are tricked, the heads of her tribes are the cause of Egypt's wandering out of the way. The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.

By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

People will come in my name, saying, I am he; and a number will be turned from the true way.

And they made statements against him, saying, This man has to our knowledge been teaching our nation to do wrong, and not to make payment of taxes to Caesar, even saying that he himself is Christ, a king.

You say that this man has been teaching the people evil things: now I, after going into the question before you, see nothing wrong in this man in connection with the things which you have said against him

And there was much discussion about him among the mass of the people. Some said, He is a good man; but others said, No, he is giving people false ideas.

We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: you are greatly in error.

But Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God.

Jesus said to them, Is not this the reason for your error, that you have no knowledge of the holy Writings or of the power of God?

And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them.

For people will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and a number will be turned from the true way through them.

For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.

And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.

Because there will be false Christs and false prophets, and they will give signs and wonders in the hope of turning even the saints from the true way.