30 Bible Verses about Error
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Jesus answered: You are mistaken! You do not know the scriptures or the power of God.
Jesus replied: Is it not for this cause that you err? You do not know the scriptures or the power of God.
let him know, that he who turns a sinner back from the error of his way will save a person from death, and cover a multitude of sins.
We are from God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the vital principle (spirit) of truth, and the principle (spirit) of deception (error).
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun. It is like an error that proceeds from the ruler.
Do not let your speech cause you to sin. Do not say to the messenger of God that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry because of what you say and destroy the work of your hands?
You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, avoid being carried away with the error of the wicked and falling from your own steadfastness.
Every word of God is pure. He is a shield to those who trust him.
Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to argue about words. This is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers.
Even if it were true that I made a mistake without realizing it, my mistake would affect only me.
So God dispatches the power of deceit (error) to work in them so that they are allowed to believe what is false.
We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error.
Also the men left the natural use of the woman and burned in their lust, one toward another; men with men working that which is obscene. They receive full recompense due for their error.
God inspired all Scripture! It is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. (Greek: theopneustos: God-breathed)
If your brother does wrong to you, go to him in private. Clearly explain his error between you and him. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother back.
For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires (lusts) of the flesh, by sensuality (lasciviousness), those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.
They went astray, forsaking the right way. They followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing.
Then the commissioners and the governors sought to find a charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom. They could find no charge, nor error, nor fault, for he was faithful.
He should instruct those who oppose using meekness. Perhaps God will give them repentance that they may know the truth.
It is definitely because they have misled my people by saying, Peace! When there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall they plaster it over with whitewash.'
There will be a highway there, called: The Road of Holiness. No sinner will ever travel that road. No fools will mislead those who follow it.
At once Jehovah God became angry with Uzzah. He killed him because of his irreverence. Uzzah died there beside the Ark of the Covenant.
A fool speaks foolishly and thinks up evil things to do. He promotes wickedness and what he says insults Jehovah. He never feeds the hungry or gives thirsty people anything to drink.
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Drunkenness » Leads to » Error
These also stagger from wine and reel from beer. Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine. They reel from beer. They stagger when seeing visions. They stumble when rendering decisions.
Error » Sin's penalty » Abandonment by God
God gave them up to uncleanness because of the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.
Do not be like your ancestors and your relatives who were unfaithful to Jehovah the God of their ancestors. He made them something that shocks people, as you have seen.
She shouted: Samson! The Philistines are coming! He woke up and thought: I will get loose and go free, as always. He did not know that Jehovah had left him.
Error » Sin's penalty » Penalty sometimes delayed
They shall come back here in the fourth generation. The iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.
For my name's sake I will be patient. For my glory's sake I will hold my anger back from you, and not destroy you.
They were disobedient while the ark was being built. Yet God waited patiently in the days of Noah. But few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.
Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Since he has done this, I will not bring disaster on him during his lifetime. It will be during his son's lifetime that I will bring disaster on Ahab's family.
I will not do it in your lifetime, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.
Error » Sin's penalty » Death, physical and spiritual
Therefore, through one-man sin entered into the world, and death through sin. So death passed to all men, for all have sinned.
You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift from God is everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. When you eat of it you will surely die.
You broke faith with me among the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin. You did not treat me as holy among of the sons of Israel.
Error » Known to God » Loved by men
how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks up evil like water!
Woe to those who scatter sin with cords of falsehood and iniquity with a cart rope!
Error » Definition of » Sin deceptive
For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
The beast was captured, and with him the false prophet that performed signs before him, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast, and those who worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.
You put away your former way (course) (behavior) (conversation) of life, the old self that was corrupt with the lusts of deceit.
Encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Error » Definition of » To be forsaken
A great cloud of witnesses surround us. Therefore let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that easily entangles us. Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you.
You put away your former way (course) (behavior) (conversation) of life, the old self that was corrupt with the lusts of deceit.
You were also circumcised in him with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ.
The man who covers his sins will not be blessed; but whoever confesses and leaves them will have mercy.
Error » Known to God » Hateful to God
Jesus said: You make yourselves look righteous to other people. God knows your hearts. The things considered of great value by people are worth nothing in God's sight.
Everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to Jehovah your God.
When her mourning was over, David sent for her and brought her to his home. She became his wife. Then she gave birth to a son. However, Jehovah considered David's actions evil.
For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness. No evil dwells with you!
Jehovah tests (examines) righteous and wicked people alike. He hates wicked people and the ones who love violence.
Error » Definition of » Despised by saints
I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of unfaithful people. I want no part of it.
He delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked.
I get understanding from your precepts. Therefore I hate every false way.
I hate those who are double-minded, but I love your law.
Error » Definition of » Consequences of parents' sins upon children
Do not worship them or serve them. I, Jehovah your God, am a God demanding exclusive devotion. (I do not tolerate rivals.) I will not share your affection with any other god. I punish children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.
Your children will be shepherds in the desert for forty years. They will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies dead in the desert.
Jehovah loves justice, and he will not abandon his godly ones. They will be kept safe forever, but the descendants of the wicked will be destroyed.
You ruined your country and killed your own people. For that reason, you will not be buried like other kings. None of your evil family will survive.
The house of the wicked will be overthrown. But the tabernacle of the upright will flourish.
Error » Known to God » Allurements of
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires (lusts) of the flesh, by sensuality (lasciviousness), those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.
When I saw among the spoils a quality Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them. I hid them in the earth in the middle of my tent.
There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof is the way of death.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Error » Definition of » Forbidden
My little children, I write you these things that you may not sin. If any man sin, we have an Advocate (intercessor) (comforter) (helper) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous!
Later Jesus found him in the temple and told him: Now that you are healed do not sin anymore and avoid worse things happening to you.
Error » Sin's penalty » Separation from God
But your wrongs have separated you from your God. Your sins have made him hide his face so that he does not even hear you.
Go to that land flowing with milk and honey. I will not be with you, because you are impossible to deal with. I would probably destroy you on the way.
Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant I commanded them to keep. They have taken some of the devoted things and put them in their own possessions. Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies. They ran from their enemies, because they were accursed. I will not be with you any more until you destroy the devoted things you have among you.
If I had thought about doing anything sinful, Jehovah would not have listened to me.
No one calls on your name or tries to hold on to you. You have hidden your face from us. You allowed us be ruined by our sins.
Error » Sins » Our deliverance from, through Christ
First of all, I delivered to you what I also received, how Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.
And from Jesus Christ, who is the Faithful Witness, and the firstborn from the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and released us from our sins by his blood.
He (Jesus) gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us out of this present evil age. This is according to the will of our God and Father.
He bore our sins in his body upon the stake, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed because of his wounds (stripes).
He is the propitiation (Greek: hilasmos: atonement, compensation) for our sins. Not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
Error » Sins » Of ignorance
He who did not know and did things unacceptable will receive a lesser punishment. To whom much is given, much will be required and to whom they commit much they will demand even more.
I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a violent aggressor. I was shown mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
to tell the people of Israel: If a person sins unintentionally and does not keep Jehovah's commandments he would have to observe the following rules:
If any of you sin unintentionally by breaking any of Jehovah's commandments, you are guilty and must pay the penalty.
Brothers, I know you acted in ignorance just as your rulers did.
Error » Definition of » Forgiven
But he is compassionate. He forgave their sin. He did not destroy them. He restrained his anger many times. He did not display all of his fury.
You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.
David said to Nathan: I have sinned against Jehovah. Nathan replied: Jehovah has taken away your sin. You will not die.
You removed your people's guilt. You pardoned all their sins.
Error » Sins » Of omission
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy and faith. You should do both and leave nothing undone.
The King will answer: 'To the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of my brothers, you did not do it to me.'
Woe to you Pharisees! You tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God. You should have done these but you leave them undone.
Error » Definition of » Origin of
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Indeed, I was born in perversity (mischief) (evil). I was a sinner when my mother conceived me.
Evil thoughts come from the heart! Thoughts about murder, adultery, fornication, theft, lying, and slander come from the heart!
Then evil desires, when conceived, give birth to sin: and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.
What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you?
Error » Definition of » Inexcusable
You who judge have no excuse. For when you judge another you condemn yourself. After all you do the same things.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin. Now they have no excuse for their sin!
His invisible attributes are clearly seen since the creation of the world. The things made prove His eternal power and divine nature. Mankind has no excuse,
Error » Definition of » Contempt for others
Error » Definition of » Vain talk
Error » Definition of » Foolish thoughts
Error » Definition of » Unbelief
He that doubts is damned if he eats, because he eats not by faith. Whatever is not by faith is sin!
Error » Definition of » All unrighteousness
Error » Definition of » Transgression of the law
Everyone who practices (exercises) sin also commits lawlessness, because sin is lawlessness.
Error » Definition of » Neglect of opportunity
Ignorance of God » Leads to » Error
Jesus answered: You are mistaken! You do not know the scriptures or the power of God.