20 Bible Verses about People Going Astray

My people were lost sheep: their shepherds caused them to wander, they turned them away in the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their place to lie down.

To Zion shall they ask the way, thither their faces: Come ye, and we will join ourselves to Jehovah an eternal covenant; it shall not be forgotten.

For ye were as sheep going astray; but now have turned about to the Shepherd and inspector of your souls.

Whose paths are perverted, and in their tracks are bent aside:

The path to life is watching instruction: and he forsaking reproof goes astray.

Cease, my son, to hear instructions for erring from the words of knowledge.

So that the house of Israel shall no more wander from after me, and they shall no more be defiled with all their transgressions; and they were to me for a people, and I will be to them for God, says the Lord Jehovah.

A man wandering from the way of understanding shall rest in the convocation of the shades.

But the Levites who went far off from me, in the going astray of Israel who went astray from me after the blocks; and they bare their iniquity.

And the priests the Levites, sons of Zadok, who watched the watches of my holy place in the going astray of the sons of Israel from me, they shall draw near to me to serve me, and they stood before me to bring near to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Jehovah:

To the priests being consecrated: of the sons of Zadok, who watched my watches, who went not astray in the going astray of the sons of Israel, as the Levites went astray.

Wo! to them, for they fled from me: destruction to them because they transgressed against me: and I will redeem them and they spake falsehoods against me.

They called to them, thus they went from them: they will sacrifice to the Baals, and to the carved images they will burn incense.

Before I shall be humbled I go astray: and now I watched thy word.

And thy heart shall not deviate to her ways; thou shalt not wander in her beaten paths.

Wherefore I was offended with that generation and I said, They always wander in heart; and they knew not my ways.

And ye departed out of the way; ye made many weak by the law; ye corrupted the covenant of Levi, said Jehovah of armies.

All have bent aside, together have they become unprofitable: there is none doing good, there is not even one.

Brethren, if any among you be led astray from the truth, and any should turn him back;

All we as sheep went astray; we turned a man to his way; and Jehovah caused the iniquity of us all to fall upon him.