20 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 restingplace.

They shall ask the way to Zion, unto where they shall turn their faces, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in an eternal covenant that shall never be forgotten.

For ye were as sheep that had gone astray, but are now converted unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

whose ways are crooked, and they are crooked in their paths;

He is in the way of life that gives heed to chastening, but he that refuses reproof errs.

Cease, my son, to hear the teaching that induces one to deviate from the reasons of wisdom.

that the house of Israel may no longer go astray from me, neither be polluted any longer in all their rebellions but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, said the Lord GOD.

The man that wanders out of the way of wisdom shall end up in the congregation of the dead.

And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall bear their iniquity.

But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the sons of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, said the Lord GOD.

The priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, which have kept my charge, which did not go astray when the sons of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction upon them! because they have rebelled against me; though I have ransomed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

As they called them, so they went from them; they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

Before I was humbled, I went into error, but now I keep thy spoken word.

Let not thine heart decline to her ways; do not go astray in her paths.

Therefore, I was indignant with that generation and said, They do always err from their heart, and they have not known my ways.

But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, said the LORD of the hosts.

They are all gone out of the way; they are together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, no, not one.

Brethren, if any of you have erred from the truth, and someone should convert him;

All we like sheep have become lost; we have turned each one to his own way; and the LORD transposed in him the iniquity of us all.