19 Bible Verses about People Going Astray

My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting-place.

They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces toward it, [saying], Come ye, and join yourselves to LORD in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.

For ye were like sheep going astray, but now were returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof errs.

To err from the words of knowledge, cease, my son, to hear instruction.

that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, nor defile themselves any more with all their transgressions, but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says lord LORD.

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the sons of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me. And they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat an

Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

The more [the prophets] called them, the more they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I observe thy word.

Let not thy heart decline to her ways. Go not astray in her paths.

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, They are always led astray in their heart, and they did not know my ways.

But ye are turned aside out of the way. Ye have caused many to stumble in the law. Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says LORD of hosts.

All turned away. Together they became useless. There is not a man who does goodness; there is not as much as one.

Brothers, if any man among you may be led astray from the truth, and some man converts him,

All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way, and LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.