30 Bible Verses about Error

But these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are they gone astray. The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are overpowered by wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they have erred in vision, they have stumbled in judgment.

Wherefore God gave them up also in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies between themselves:

And be not like your fathers and like your brethren, who transgressed against Jehovah the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate;

And the Spirit of Jehovah departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Jehovah troubled him.

And she said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And he awoke from his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." And he did not know that the LORD had left him.

And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

For my name's sake I will defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain as to thee, that I cut thee not off.

heretofore disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was preparing, into which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:

Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.

notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father's sake; I will rend it out of the hand of thy son;

For this cause, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.

For the wages of sin is death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt certainly die.

because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye hallowed me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of evil;

How much less the abominable and corrupt, man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth and he hide it under his tongue,

Thou hast loved evil rather than good, lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with cart-ropes!

and Adam was not deceived; but the woman, having been deceived, was in transgression.

For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

And the beast was taken, and the false prophet that was with him, who wrought the signs before him by which he deceived them that received the mark of the beast, and those that worship his image. Alive were both cast into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone;

namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;

But encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called To-day, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;

in whom also ye have been circumcised with circumcision not done by hand, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of the Christ;

He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.

And he said to them, Ye are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination before God.

For every one that doeth such things, every one that doeth unrighteousness, is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of Jehovah.

For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with thee.

Jehovah trieth the righteous one; but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth.

I will set no thing of Belial before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

and saved righteous Lot, distressed with the abandoned conversation of the godless,

From thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false path.

SAMECH. The double-minded have I hated; but thy law do I love.

For my palate shall meditate truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth generation of them that hate me,

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

for Jehovah loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: They are preserved for ever; but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial; for thou hast destroyed thy land, hast slain thy people. Of the seed of evildoers no mention shall be made for ever.

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; but the tent of the upright shall flourish.

And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,

I saw among the spoils a beautiful mantle of Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a golden bar of fifty shekels weight, and I coveted them and took them; and behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death.

Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread of secrecy is pleasant.

My children, these things I write to you in order that ye may not sin; and if any one sin, we have a patron with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil,

After these things Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou art become well: sin no more, that something worse do not happen to thee.

And she said, No one, sir. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.

but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he doth not hear.

into a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiff-necked people, lest I consume thee on the way.

Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them, and they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it among their stuff. And the children of Israel shall not be able to stand before their enemies: they shall turn their backs before their enemies, for they have made themselves accursed. I will no more be with you, except ye destroy the accursed thing from your midst.

Had I regarded iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not hear.

and there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hidden thy face from us, and hast caused us to melt away through our iniquities.

For I delivered to you, in the first place, what also I had received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures;

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and has washed us from our sins in his blood,

who gave himself for our sins, so that he should deliver us out of the present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father;

who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, in order that, being dead to sins, we may live to righteousness: by whose stripes ye have been healed.

and he is the propitiation for our sins; but not for ours alone, but also for the whole world.

but he who knew it not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. And to every one to whom much has been given, much shall be required from him; and to whom men have committed much, they will ask from him the more.

who before was a blasphemer and persecutor, and an insolent overbearing man: but mercy was shewn me because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through inadvertence against any of the commandments of Jehovah in things that ought not to be done, and do any of them;

And if any one sin and do against any of all the commandments of Jehovah what should not be done, and hath not known it, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

And now, brethren, I know that ye did it in ignorance, as also your rulers;

But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:

And you, being dead in offences and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having forgiven us all the offences;

And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan said to David, Jehovah has also put away thy sin: thou shalt not die.

Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

But Jesus, seeing their faith, says to the paralytic, Child, thy sins are forgiven thee.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye pay tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and ye have left aside the weightier matters of the law, judgment and mercy and faith: these ye ought to have done and not have left those aside.

But that bondman who knew his own lord's will, and had not prepared himself nor done his will, shall be beaten with many stripes;

To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

Then shall he answer them saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have not done it to one of these least, neither have ye done it to me.

But woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye pay tithes of mint and rue and every herb, and pass by the judgment and the love of God: these ye ought to have done, and not have left those aside.

And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;

then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death.

Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one who judgest, for in that in which thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

for from the world's creation the invisible things of him are perceived, being apprehended by the mind through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity, so as to render them inexcusable.

He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth; but he that is gracious to the afflicted, happy is he.

In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; but he that restraineth his lips doeth wisely.

The purpose of folly is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to men.

But he that doubts, if he eat, is condemned; because it is not of faith; but whatever is not of faith is sin.

Every unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not to death.

Every one that practises sin practises also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

And Jesus answering said to them, Ye err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God.