20 Bible Verses about People Going Astray
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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 ask the way to Zion with their faces there, saying, Come and let us join ourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant never to be forgotten.
For you were as sheep going astray, but now you are turned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
whose ways are crooked, and are devious in their paths.
He who keeps instruction is in the way of life; but he who refuses reproof goes astray.
My son, cease to hear the discipline, only to stray from the words of knowledge.
So that the house of Israel may never again go astray from Me, nor be defiled again with all their transgressions, but they are to Me My people, and I will be to them for God, says the Lord Jehovah.
The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of departed spirits.
But the Levites who have gone far away from Me, when Israel went astray; those who went astray from Me after their idols; they shall even 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 Me to minister to Me, and they shall stand before Me to offer to Me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Jehovah.
for the priests who are sanctified, of the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge, who did not go astray when the sons of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
Woe to them! For they have fled from Me. Ruin to them! Because they have sinned against Me. Though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.
As they called them, so they went from them. They sacrifice to the Baals, and burn incense to graven images.
Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways, do not go astray in her paths.
Therefore I was grieved with that generation and said, They always err in their heart, and they have not known My ways.
But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says Jehovah of Hosts.
"They are all gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable, there is none that does good, no, not one."
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each one to his own way; and Jehovah has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
