20 Bible Verses about People Going Astray

My people hath been a lost flock. My shepherds have deceived them, and have made them go astray upon the hills. They have gone from the mountains to the little hill, and forgotten their fold.

They shall ask the way to Zion; thither shall they turn their faces, and come and hang upon thee, in a covenant that never shall be broken.

For ye were as sheep going astray: but are now returned unto the shepherd, and bishop of your souls.

Whose ways are crooked, and their paths slanderous;

To take heed unto the chastening of nurture, is the way of life; but he that refuseth to be reformed, deceiveth himself.

My son, heareth no more the doctrine that leadeth thee away from the words of understanding.

that the house of Israel be led no more from me through error, and be no more defiled in their wickedness: but that they may be my people, and I their God, sayeth the LORD God.'"

The man that wandereth out of the way of wisdom, shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

No nor the Levites that are gone back from me, and have deceived the people of Israel with errors, going after their idols: therefore shall they bear their own wickedness.

But the Priests, the Levites the sons of Zadok, that kept the holy ordinances of my Sanctuary, when the children of Israel were gone from me: shall come to me, to do me service, to stand before me, and to offer me the fat and the blood, sayeth the LORD God.

Yea, this same place shall be the priests, that are of the children of Zadok and have kept my holy ordinance: which went not astray in the error of the children of Israel, like as the Levites are gone astray.

Woe be unto them, for they have forsaken me. They must be destroyed, for they have set me at naught. I am he that have redeemed them, and yet they dissemble with me.

But the more they were called, the more they went back, offering unto Idols, and censing Images.

Before I was troubled, I went wrong, but now I keep thy word.

Let not thine heart wander in her ways, and be thou not deceived in her paths.

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation and said, 'They ever err in their hearts: they verily have not known my ways,'

But as for you, ye are gone clean out of the way, and have caused the multitude to be offended at the law: ye have broken the covenant of Levi, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

they are all gone out of the way, they are all made unprofitable, there is none that doeth good, no not one."

Brethren if any of you err from the truth, and another convert him,

And we went astray as sheep, and turned every man his way: and the LORD put on him the wickedness of us all.