30 Bible Verses about Error

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Mark 12:24

Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures or the power of God?

1 John 4:6

We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Ecclesiastes 10:5

There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like an error which goes forth from the ruler—

Ecclesiastes 5:6

Do not let your speech cause you to sin and do not say in the presence of the messenger of God that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry on account of your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

Proverbs 30:6

Do not add to His words
Or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar.

2 Thessalonians 2:11

For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,

Romans 1:27

and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

2 Peter 2:18

For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,

Daniel 6:4

Then the commissioners and satraps began trying to find a ground of accusation against Daniel in regard to government affairs; but they could find no ground of accusation or evidence of corruption, inasmuch as he was faithful, and no negligence or corruption was to be found in him.

Ezekiel 13:10

It is definitely because they have misled My people by saying, ‘Peace!’ when there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall, behold, they plaster it over with whitewash;

Isaiah 35:8

A highway will be there, a roadway,
And it will be called the Highway of Holiness.
The unclean will not travel on it,
But it will be for him who walks that way,
And fools will not wander on it.

2 Samuel 6:7

And the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down there for his irreverence; and he died there by the ark of God.

Isaiah 32:6

For a fool speaks nonsense,
And his heart inclines toward wickedness:
To practice ungodliness and to speak error against the Lord,
To keep the hungry person unsatisfied
And to withhold drink from the thirsty.

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Drunkenness » Leads to » Error

Isaiah 28:7

And these also reel with wine and stagger from strong drink:
The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink,
They are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink;
They reel while having visions,
They totter when rendering judgment.

Error » Sin's penalty » Abandonment by God

2 Chronicles 30:7

Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their fathers, so that He made them a horror, as you see.

Matthew 23:38

Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!

Judges 16:20

She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.

Error » Sin's penalty » Penalty sometimes delayed

Isaiah 48:9

For the sake of My name I delay My wrath,
And for My praise I restrain it for you,
In order not to cut you off.

1 Peter 3:20

who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.

1 Kings 21:29

“Do you see how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days, but I will bring the evil upon his house in his son’s days.”

1 Kings 11:12

Nevertheless I will not do it in your days for the sake of your father David, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

Error » Sin's penalty » Death, physical and spiritual

Deuteronomy 32:51

because you broke faith with Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because you did not treat Me as holy in the midst of the sons of Israel.

Error » Known to God » Loved by men

Job 15:16

How much less one who is detestable and corrupt,
Man, who drinks iniquity like water!

Job 20:12

“Though evil is sweet in his mouth
And he hides it under his tongue,

Psalm 52:3

You love evil more than good,
Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who drag iniquity with the cords of falsehood,
And sin as if with cart ropes;

Error » Definition of » Sin deceptive

1 Timothy 2:14

And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.

Error » Definition of » To be forsaken

Colossians 2:11

and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;

More verses: Isaiah 55:7 Job 11:14

Error » Known to God » Hateful to God

2 Samuel 11:27

When the time of mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house and she became his wife; then she bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the Lord.

Psalm 5:4

For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness;
No evil dwells with You.

Error » Definition of » Despised by saints

Psalm 101:3

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes;
I hate the work of those who fall away;
It shall not fasten its grip on me.

2 Peter 2:7

and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men

Psalm 119:104

From Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every false way.

Proverbs 8:7

“For my mouth will utter truth;
And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

More verses: Proverbs 8:13 Romans 7:15

Error » Definition of » Consequences of parents' sins upon children

Exodus 20:5

You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Numbers 14:33

Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness.

Psalm 37:28

For the Lord loves justice
And does not forsake His godly ones;
They are preserved forever,
But the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.

Isaiah 14:20

“You will not be united with them in burial,
Because you have ruined your country,
You have slain your people.
May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever.

Proverbs 14:11

The house of the wicked will be destroyed,
But the tent of the upright will flourish.

More verses: Lamentations 5:7

Error » Known to God » Allurements of

2 Peter 2:18

For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,

Joshua 7:21

when I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold fifty shekels in weight, then I coveted them and took them; and behold, they are concealed in the earth inside my tent with the silver underneath it.”

More verses: James 1:14

Error » Definition of » Forbidden

John 5:14

Afterward Jesus *found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become well; do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse happens to you.”

John 8:11

She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, I do not condemn you, either. Go. From now on sin no more.”]

More verses: 1 Corinthians 15:34

Error » Sin's penalty » Separation from God

Exodus 33:3

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, because you are an obstinate people, and I might destroy you on the way.”

Joshua 7:11-12

"Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. And they have even taken some of the things under the ban and have both stolen and deceived. Moreover, they have also put them among their own things. "Therefore the sons of Israel cannot stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, for they have become accursed. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy the things under the ban from your midst.

More verses: Hosea 5:6

Error » Sins » Our deliverance from, through Christ

Error » Sins » Of ignorance

Luke 12:48

but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.

Leviticus 4:2

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If a person sins unintentionally in any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, and commits any of them,

Leviticus 5:17

“Now if a person sins and does any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, though he was unaware, still he is guilty and shall bear his punishment.

Acts 3:17

“And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also.

Error » Definition of » Forgiven

Psalm 78:38

But He, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them;
And often He restrained His anger
And did not arouse all His wrath.

Psalm 85:2

You forgave the iniquity of Your people;
You covered all their sin. Selah.

Error » Sins » Of omission

Matthew 23:23

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

Luke 12:47

And that slave who knew his master’s will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes,

Matthew 25:45

Then He will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’

Error » Definition of » Origin of

Error » Definition of » Inexcusable

Romans 2:1

Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Error » Definition of » Contempt for others

Proverbs 14:21

He who despises his neighbor sins,
But happy is he who is gracious to the poor.

Error » Definition of » Vain talk

Error » Definition of » Foolish thoughts

Error » Definition of » Unbelief

Error » Definition of » All unrighteousness

1 John 5:17

All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

Error » Definition of » Transgression of the law

Error » Definition of » Neglect of opportunity

Ignorance of God » Leads to » Error

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