17 Bible Verses about Error
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Jesus answered them, you are mistaken, for want of a true notion of the scriptures, and of the divine power.
for they all married her. Jesus answered them, don't you see you are in a mistake, by being unacquainted with the scriptures, as well as with the power of God?
that the retrieving of a sinner from his erroneous habits, is saving a soul from ruin, and cancels a multitude of sins.
My brethren, when any of you deviates from the truth, whoever sets him right, may be assured,
he is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: and therefore you greatly mistake the meaning.
we are of God: he that knoweth God, heareth us; he that is not of God, heareth not us. by this we distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of imposture.
Do you then, my dear brethren, being thus forewarn'd, take care not to be seduc'd by those prophane impostors, and so lose the reward of your constancy.
These things represent, conjuring them by the presence of the Lord, to avoid disputes about words, which only serve to pervert the audience.
wherefore God will suffer a spirit of delusion to work them into the belief of a lye:
that we should be no longer children, fluctuating, and carried about with every empty doctrine, by men vers'd in sleight and the crafty arts of deceit:
and the men unnaturally leaving the sex, were inflamed with mutual passions, which they shamefully indulged, and received in their own persons, the retribution that was justly due to such enormities.
for all divinely inspired writings are conducive to instruction, to conviction, to reformation, and the practice of virtue;
Now in case such a brother do you an injury, go and expostulate with him in private: if he repents, thou hast saved thy brother.
when their language swells with vanity, by applying to the sensual passions of the licentious, they allure those who were escap'd for a while, from such deceivers:
and are gone astray to follow the practices of Balaam of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity;
with great temper and meekness informing those, who differ in opinion; because he does not know, but God may change their minds, by convincing them of the truth.
From Thematic Bible
Drunkenness » Leads to » Error
Error » Sin's penalty » Abandonment by God
wherefore God abandon'd them to the impure passions of their own hearts, so that they themselves dishonour'd their own bodies;
Error » Sin's penalty » Penalty sometimes delayed
those antient rebels in the time of Noah, when the divine forbearance waited, till the ark was quite finish'd, in which only eight persons were saved by means of the water.
Error » Sin's penalty » Death, physical and spiritual
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, so death by this sin; and thereby death passed upon all men, who all by his means became mortal.
for the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Error » Known to God » Loved by men
Error » Definition of » Sin deceptive
for even we ourselves were once inconsiderate, disobedient, deluded, addicted to variety of passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, the deserving objects of mutual hatred.
and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles in his favour, by which he seduc'd those that had received the mark of the beast, and those that worshipped his image. these were both cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
to quit the vicious habits of your former conversation, corrupted by deceitful passions:
but exhort one another daily while the day lasts, lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfulness of sin.
Error » Definition of » To be forsaken
Wherefore, since we are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin which does so easily embarrass us, and let us pursue with constancy the course that is proposed to us:
but at present have obtain'd it. I exhort you, my dear brethren, as strangers and travellers to avoid all sensual passions, as destructive to your
to quit the vicious habits of your former conversation, corrupted by deceitful passions:
by whom also ye have obtain'd the true spiritual circumcision, not effected by men, when you were by a christian circumcision divested of all your carnal affections,
Error » Known to God » Hateful to God
but he said to them, you pretend to piety before men, which, however they may admire, is an abomination to God, who knows your real temper.
Error » Definition of » Despised by saints
since he deliver'd that just man Lot, who was grieved at the enormous practices of the licentious;
Error » Definition of » Consequences of parents' sins upon children
Error » Known to God » Allurements of
when their language swells with vanity, by applying to the sensual passions of the licentious, they allure those who were escap'd for a while, from such deceivers:
Error » Definition of » Forbidden
My dear children, these things I write unto you, that ye may avoid sin. but if any man has failed, we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ the just.
sometime after Jesus met him in the temple, and said to him, you see you were cured: sin no more, lest you suffer something worse.
Lord, said she, no man. and Jesus said to her, neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, by making you slaves to the lusts thereof.
Error » Sin's penalty » Separation from God
Error » Sins » Our deliverance from, through Christ
I acquainted you chiefly with what I received myself, that Christ died for our sins, as the scriptures foretold:
and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth: unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins by his own blood,
that he might deliver us from the vices of this present age, according to the will of God, even our father: to
he himself cancel'd our sins by the crucifixion of his body, that we being set free from sin, might live in the service of virtue. it is by his bruises that you were healed:
he is the the victim that has expiated our sins: and not ours only, but likewise the sins of the whole world.
Error » Sins » Of ignorance
whereas he that does not know it, and does things worthy of chastisement, shall receive fewer stripes. for to whom much is given, of him shall much be required, and the more a man has been trusted, the greater will be the demand.
who was before a blasphemer, and a violent persecutor; but I obtained mercy, because I acted thro' ignorance in incrudelity.
and now, brethren, I know it was through ignorance, that both you and your rulers, have acted thus.
Error » Definition of » Forgiven
Even you, who were in a dying sinful state, and were uncircumcised Gentiles, has God raised to life, as he did Christ, having pardoned all your sins:
Error » Sins » Of omission
wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who pay tithe of mint, anise, and cummin, but neglect those more important matters of the law, justice, mercy, and fidelity: these were the things ye ought to have practis'd, without neglecting however the other matters.
but the servant, who knows his master's will, and prepares not himself, nor executes his orders, shall receive many stripes.
to this he will reply, I declare unto you, your not doing this for one of the least of these, is the same thing as not doing it for me.
but wo unto you Pharisees: for you will pay the tythes of mint, and rue, and all sorts of herbs, but as for justice and true piety, those you neglect. these you ought to have practised, without omitting however the other.
Error » Definition of » Origin of
out of the heart proceed evil designs, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, slanders.
Error » Definition of » Inexcusable
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art, that condemnest another, for by condemning them, you condemn yourself; since you that condemn them, do the same things.
if I had not appear'd, and inform'd them, they would have been innocent: but now they have no excuse for their sin.
for ever since the creation of the world, his eternal power and divinity, things in themselves invisible, are clearly seen, being perceived by the things that are made; so that they are without excuse:
Error » Definition of » Contempt for others
Error » Definition of » Vain talk
Error » Definition of » Foolish thoughts
Error » Definition of » Unbelief
for he that makes a difference, is self-condemn'd, if he eats against his own persuasion: for every action of that kind is sin .
Error » Definition of » All unrighteousness
every thing that is contrary to virtue, is a sin: but every sin is not a mortal sin:
Error » Definition of » Transgression of the law
Error » Definition of » Neglect of opportunity
Ignorance of God » Leads to » Error
Jesus answered them, you are mistaken, for want of a true notion of the scriptures, and of the divine power.