20 Bible Verses about People Going Astray

My people have become lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray. They have made them turn aside on the mountains. They have gone along from mountain to hill and have forgotten their resting place.

They will ask for the way to Zion turning their faces in its direction. They will come to join themselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.

For you were straying like sheep. But now you have returned to your shepherd and overseer.

The wicked are crooked. They are devious in their ways.

He who regards instruction is in the way of life. He who refuses reproof goes (mentally and morally) astray.

Stop listening to instruction (discipline) (correction), my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

The people of Israel will no longer wander away from me. They will no longer dishonor me with all their sins. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God, declares the Lord Jehovah.

The man who wanders from the way of understanding will remain in the congregation of the dead.

But the Levites, who went far from me when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, will bear the punishment for their iniquity.

But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept charge of my sanctuary when the sons of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. They shall stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the Lord Jehovah.

This land that has been set apart will belong to the priests who are descendants of Zadok. They took care of my holy place. They did not wander away with the Israelites as the Levites did.

Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction is theirs, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.

But the more I called Israel, the further they went from me. They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images.

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.

Do not let your heart go after her ways. Do not stray in her paths.

I was disgusted (angry) with this generation, and said: 'They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.'

You priests have turned away from the right path. Your teaching has led many to do wrong. You have corrupted the covenant I made with Levi (you).

All have turned away from God; they have all done wrong. No one does what is right, not even one. (Psalm 53:3)

My brothers, if any among you strays from the truth, and one brings him back,

We are all like sheep. We have gone astray! Each of us has turned to his own way. Jehovah has caused the iniquity (sin) of all of us to be laid on him.