20 Bible Verses about People Going Astray

A perishing flock hath My people been, Their shepherds have caused them to err, To the mountains causing them to go back, From mountain unto hill they have gone, They have forgotten their crouching-place.

To Zion they ask the way, Thitherward are their faces: Come in, and we are joined unto Jehovah, A covenant age-during -- not forgotten.

for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

Whose paths are crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.

A traveller to life is he who is keeping instruction, And whoso is forsaking rebuke is erring.

Cease, my son, to hear instruction -- To err from sayings of knowledge.

so that the house of Israel do not wander any more from after Me, nor are defiled any more with all their transgressions, and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for God -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

A man who is wandering from the way of understanding, In an assembly of Rephaim resteth.

but -- the Levites who have gone far off from me, in the wandering of Israel when they went astray from Me after their idols, and they have borne their iniquity.

And the priests, the Levites, sons of Zadok, who have kept the charge of My sanctuary in the wandering of the sons of Israel from off Me, they draw near unto Me to serve Me, and have stood before Me, to bring near to Me fat and blood -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah:

For the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge, who erred not in the erring of the sons of Israel, as the Levites erred,

Woe to them, for they wandered from Me, Destruction to them, for they transgressed against Me, And I -- I ransom them, and they have spoken lies against Me,

They have called to them rightly, They have gone from before them, To lords they do sacrifice, And to graven images they make perfume.

Before I am afflicted, I -- I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.

Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,

wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

And ye, ye have turned from the way, Ye have caused many to stumble in the law, Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

All did go out of the way, together they became unprofitable, there is none doing good, there is not even one.

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back,

All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.