20 Bible Verses about People Going Astray

"My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have allow them to go astray. They have wandered around in the mountains. They have roamed from one mountain and hill to another. They have forgotten their resting place.

They will ask the way to Zion; they will turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the Lord in a lasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

For you were going astray like sheep but now you have turned back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;

The one who heeds instruction is on the way to life, but the one who rejects rebuke goes astray.

If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from me, nor continue to defile themselves by all their sins. They will be my people and I will be their God, declares the sovereign Lord.'"

The one who wanders from the way of wisdom will end up in the company of the departed.

"'But the Levites who went far from me, straying off from me after their idols when Israel went astray, will be responsible for their sin.

"'But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the sovereign Lord.

This will be for the priests who are set apart from the descendants of Zadok who kept my charge and did not go astray when the people of Israel strayed off, like the Levites did.

Woe to them! For they have fled from me! Destruction to them! For they have rebelled against me! I want to deliver them, but they have lied to me.

But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.

Before I was afflicted I used to stray off, but now I keep your instructions.

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways -- do not wander into her pathways;

"Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, 'Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.'

You, however, have turned from the way. You have caused many to violate the law; you have corrupted the covenant with Levi," says the Lord who rules over all.

All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one."

My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the Lord caused the sin of all of us to attack him.