30 Bible Verses about Error

And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

See, your house is made waste

Now the spirit of the Lord had gone from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord was troubling him.

Then she said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And awaking from his sleep, he said, I will go out as at other times, shaking myself free. But he was not conscious that the Lord had gone from him.

And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.

Because of my name I will put away my wrath, and for my praise I will keep myself from cutting you off.

Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders; but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while Noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water:

Do you see how Ahab has made himself low before me? because he has made himself low before me, I will not send the evil in his life-time, but in his son's time I will send the evil on his family.

I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.

For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:

With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.

Because of your sin against me before the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath Kadesh in the waste land of Zin; because you did not keep my name holy among the children of Israel.

Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;

You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)

Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!

And Adam was not taken by deceit, but the woman, being tricked, became a wrongdoer.

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, by which they were turned from the true way who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image: these two were put living into the sea of ever-burning fire.

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:

For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,

My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.

And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.

For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

And when the days of weeping were past, David sent for her, and took her into his house, and she became his wife and gave him a son. But the Lord was not pleased with the thing David had done.

For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.

The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.

And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers

Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.

I am a hater of men of doubting mind; but I am a lover of your law.

For good faith goes out of my mouth, and false lips are disgusting to me.

You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.

For the Lord is a lover of righteousness, and takes care of his saints; they will be kept safe for ever; but the seed of the evil-doers will be cut off.

As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

The house of the sinner will be overturned, but the tent of the upright man will do well.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.

For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:

Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.

And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said, And I do not give a decision against you: go, and never do wrong again.]

For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.

Go up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, for fear that I send destruction on you while you are on the way.

Israel has done wrong, sinning against the agreement which I made with them: they have even taken of the cursed thing; acting falsely like thieves they have put it among their goods. For this reason the children of Israel have given way, turning their backs in flight before their attackers, because they are cursed: I will no longer be with you, if you do not put the cursed thing away from among you.

I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:

And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.

For I gave to you first of all what was handed down to me, how Christ underwent death for our sins, as it says in the Writings;

And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;

Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:

He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.

He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.

But he who, without knowledge, did things for which punishment is given, will get only a small number of blows. The man to whom much is given, will have to give much; if much is given into his care, of him more will be requested.

Though I had said violent words against God, and done cruel acts, causing great trouble: but I was given mercy, because I did it without knowledge, not having faith;

Say to the children of Israel: These are the offerings of anyone who does wrong through error, doing any of the things which by the Lord's order are not to be done:

And if anyone does wrong, and does any of the things which the Lord has given orders are not to be done, though he has no knowledge of it, still he is in the wrong and he is responsible.

And now, my brothers, I am conscious that you did this, as did your rulers, without knowledge.

But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry.

And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;

And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.

The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)

And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to him, Son, you have forgiveness for your sins.

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.

And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows;

The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

Then will he make answer to them, saying, Truly I say to you, Because you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me.

But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.

Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:

Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?

So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things.

If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin.

For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

He who has no respect for his neighbour is a sinner, but he who has pity for the poor is happy.

Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.

The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.

But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.

Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.

The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

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