30 Bible Verses about Error
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But having answered, Jesus said to them, Ye are led astray, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
And having answered, Jesus said to them, Are ye not led astray because of this: not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God?
let him know that he who converts a sinful man from his wandering way, will save a soul from death, and will hide a multitude of sins.
Brothers, if any man among you may be led astray from the truth, and some man converts him,
We are of God. He who knows God hears us. He who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceeds from the ruler:
Do not allow thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say thou before the [heavenly] agent, that is was an error. Why should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
Ye therefore, beloved, knowing in advance, keep watch, lest, having accommodated to the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own steadfastness.
Every word of God is tried. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Remind them of these things, solemnly testifying in the sight of the Lord, not to brawl verbally, to nothing useful, to the ruin of those who hear.
And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
And because of this God will send them the force of a delusion, for them to believe a lie,
So that we may no longer be childish, tossed about and carried about by every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in craftiness with the methodology of error.
And likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, burned in their lust toward each other, males with males producing shamelessness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their deviancy that was fitting
Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for instruction, for reproof, for correction, for discipline in righteousness,
But if thy brother should sin against thee, go and reprove him between thee and him alone. If he should hear thee, thou have gained thy brother.
For, uttering swollen things of vanity, they entice (to sensuality by lusts of flesh) those who actually escaped from those who live in error,
having forsaked a straight path, they were led astray, men who followed the way of Balaam, son of Beor, who loved the wage of unrighteousness.
Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no occasion nor fault, inasmuch as he was faithful, nor was there any error or fault found in him.
in mildness correcting those who oppose. Perhaps God may grant them repentance for recognition of the truth,
Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace, and there is no peace, and when [a man] builds up a wall, behold, they daub it with untempered [mortar],
And a highway shall be there, and a way. And it shall be called The way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but is shall be for [the redeemed], the wayfaring men. Yea fools shall not err [in it].
And the anger of LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for his error, and he died there by the ark of God.
For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profaneness, and to utter error against LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
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Drunkenness » Leads to » Error
And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up of wine. They stagger with strong drink; they err in vision; they stumble in judgment.
Error » Sin's penalty » Abandonment by God
And for this reason God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to degrade their bodies among themselves,
And be ye not like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against LORD, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
Now the Spirit of LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from LORD troubled him.
And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free, but he knew not that LORD was departed from him.
Error » Sin's penalty » Penalty sometimes delayed
And in the fourth generation they shall come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.
For my name's sake I will defer my anger, and for my praise I will refrain for thee, that I not cut thee off.
who were disobedient formerly, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah who prepared an ark in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water.
See thou how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days, but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
Notwithstanding I will not do it in thy days, for David thy father's sake, but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
Error » Sin's penalty » Death, physical and spiritual
Because of this, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, in that all sinned.
In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it. For in the day that thou eat of it thou shall surely die.
because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because ye did not sanctify me in the midst of the sons of Israel.
Error » Known to God » Loved by men
How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope,
Error » Definition of » Sin deceptive
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, became in transgression.
For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, being led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, hateful, hating each other.
And the beast was taken, and the FALSE prophet with it who did the signs in its sight by which he led astray those who received the mark of the beast and those who worship its image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire
for you to put off the old man according to your former conduct, the man who is corrupt according to the desires of deceitfulness,
But exhort each other during each day, while it is called Today, lest any of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Error » Definition of » To be forsaken
Therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having put off every weight and cleverly entangling sin, let us run by perseverance the contest being set before us.
Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
for you to put off the old man according to your former conduct, the man who is corrupt according to the desires of deceitfulness,
In whom also ye were circumcised a circumcision not made with hands, in the removal of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Christ.
He who covers his transgressions shall not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them shall obtain mercy.
Error » Known to God » Hateful to God
And he said to them, Ye are those who declare yourselves righteous in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. Because what is lofty among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to LORD thy God.
And when the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased LORD.
For thou are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil shall not sojourn with thee.
LORD tries the righteous man, but his soul hates the wicked man and him who loves violence.
Error » Definition of » Despised by saints
I will set no base thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who turn aside. It shall not cleave to me.
and he rescued righteous Lot, being distressed by the conduct of the lawless in their licentiousness
Through thy precepts I get understanding. Therefore I hate every FALSE way.
I hate those who are of a double mind, but I love thy law.
For my mouth shall utter truth. And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Error » Definition of » Consequences of parents' sins upon children
Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I, LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those who hate me,
And your sons shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
For LORD loves justice, and forsakes not his sanctified. They are preserved forever, but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Thou shall not be joined with them in burial, because thou have destroyed thy land. Thou have slain thy people. The seed of evil-doers shall not be named forever.
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown, but the tent of the upright shall flourish.
Error » Known to God » Allurements of
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her, and h
For, uttering swollen things of vanity, they entice (to sensuality by lusts of flesh) those who actually escaped from those who live in error,
When I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylon mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them. And, behold, they are hid in the ground in the midst of my tent
There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread in secret is pleasant.
Error » Definition of » Forbidden
My little children, I write these things to you so that ye may not sin. And if any man does sin, we have an advocate with the Father--righteous Jesus Christ.
Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
After these things Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou have become well. Sin no more, lest something worse may happen to thee.
And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn thee. Go, and henceforth sin no more.
Error » Sin's penalty » Separation from God
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you so that he will not hear.
to a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume thee on the way.
Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken from what was set apart, and have also stolen, and also dissembled. And they have even put it among their own stuff. Therefore the sons of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies because they have become accursed. I will not be with you any more unless ye destroy what was set apart from among you.
If I regard iniquity in my heart, LORD will not hear.
And there is none who calls upon thy name, who stirs himself up to take hold of thee. For thou have hid thy face from us, and have consumed us through our iniquities.
Error » Sins » Our deliverance from, through Christ
For I delivered to you at first what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and washed us from our sins by his blood
who gave himself for our sins, so that he might rescue us, according to the will of our God and Father, out of the evil age that has come,
Who himself took up our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live to the righteousness of him from whose wound ye were healed.
And he is the atonement for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
Error » Sins » Of ignorance
but he who did not know, and did things worthy of blows, will be beaten little. And to every man to whom much was given, much will be required from him. And to whom they entrust much, they will ask him more abundantly.
the man who was formerly blasphemous, and a persecutor, and an aggressor. But I obtained mercy because I did it being ignorant in unbelief.
Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin unwittingly, in any of the things which LORD has commanded not to be done, and shall do any one of them,
And if a soul sins, and does any of the things which LORD has commanded not to be done, though he did not know it, yet he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
And now, brothers, I know that ye did it from ignorance, as also your rulers.
Error » Definition of » Forgiven
But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and destroyed not. Yea, many a time he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
And you, being dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you he made alive together with him, having forgiven us all the transgressions,
And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against LORD. And Nathan said to David, LORD also has put away thy sin; thou shall not die.
Thou have forgiven the iniquity of thy people. Thou have covered all their sin. Selah.
And having seen their faith, Jesus says to the paralyzed man, Child, thy sins are forgiven thee.
Error » Sins » Of omission
Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye tithe the mint and the anise and the cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law--justice and mercy and faith. These things must be done, and not neglecting t
And that bondman who knew his lord's will, and who did not prepare, nor do according to his will, will be beaten much,
Then he will answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of these least, ye did it not to me.
But woe to you Pharisees! Because ye tithe mint and rue and every plant, and pass by justice and the love of God. It is necessary to do these things, and not to neglect those things.
Error » Definition of » Origin of
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her, and h
For from the heart comes forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, FALSE witnessings, revilings.
Then the lust having conceived, it gives birth to sin, and after being complete the sin brings forth death.
From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts?
Error » Definition of » Inexcusable
Therefore, O man, thou are without excuse, every man who judges, for in what thou judge the other man, thou condemn thyself, for the man who judges is doing the same things.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, both his eternal power and divinity, for them to be without excuse.
Error » Definition of » Contempt for others
Error » Definition of » Vain talk
Transgression is not lacking in the multitude of words, but he who refrains his lips does wisely.
Error » Definition of » Foolish thoughts
Error » Definition of » Unbelief
But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not from faith, and everything that is not from faith is sin.
Error » Definition of » All unrighteousness
Error » Definition of » Transgression of the law
Error » Definition of » Neglect of opportunity
Ignorance of God » Leads to » Error
But having answered, Jesus said to them, Ye are led astray, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.