30 Bible Verses about Error

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1 John 4:6

We are from God. The one who knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

Ecclesiastes 10:5

There is an evil I have seen under the sun-- [it is] an error that proceeds from a ruler!

Ecclesiastes 5:6

Do not let your mouth lead your flesh into sin, and do not tell the messenger that it [was] a mistake. Why anger God at your words, so that he destroys the work of your hands?

2 Peter 3:17

Therefore, dear friends, [because you] know [this] beforehand, guard yourselves so that you do not lose your own safe position [because you] have been led away by the error of lawless persons.

2 Timothy 2:14

Remind [people] of these [things], solemnly urging [them] before the Lord not to dispute about words. [This is] in no way beneficial [and leads to] the ruin of the hearers.

Job 19:4

And what is more, [if] I have truly erred, my error remains with me.

2 Thessalonians 2:11

And because of this, God sends them {a powerful delusion} so that they will believe the lie,

Romans 1:27

and likewise also the males, abandoning the natural relations with the female, were inflamed in their desire toward one another, males with males committing the shameless deed, and receiving in themselves the penalty that was necessary for their error.

Job 6:24

Teach me, and I myself will be silent; and make me understand how I have gone astray.

2 Peter 2:18

{For by speaking high-sounding but empty words}, they entice with desires of the flesh [and] with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error,

Daniel 6:4

Then the [other] administrators and satraps {began to seek} to find pretext against Daniel {in connection with the kingdom}, but they were not able to find any pretext and {corruption} {because} he was trustworthy, and no negligence or {corruption} {could be found in him}.

Ezekiel 13:10

Because, yes, because they led my people astray, {saying} 'Peace!' And [there is] not peace. And [when] anyone builds a flimsy wall, look, they coat it [with] whitewash.

Isaiah 35:8

And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness. [The] unclean shall not travel through it, but it [is] for them, he who walks [on the] way; and fools shall not wander about.

2 Samuel 6:7

{Then the anger of Yahweh was kindled} against Uzza, and God struck him down there because of the indiscretion, and he died there beside the ark of God.

Isaiah 32:6

For a fool speaks folly, and his {mind} does iniquity: to {behave wickedly}, and to speak error concerning Yahweh, to leave [the] throat of [the] hungry empty, and he deprives [the] thirsty [of] drink.

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Drunkenness » Leads to » Error

Isaiah 28:7

And these also stagger because of wine and stagger because of strong drink; priest and prophet stagger because of strong drink; they are confused because of wine. They stagger because of strong drink; they err in vision. They stagger [in the] rendering of a decision,

Error » Sin's penalty » Abandonment by God

2 Chronicles 30:7

Do not be like your fathers and like your brothers, who acted unfaithfully before Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, so that he made them as a desolation, as you see.

Matthew 23:38

Behold, your house has been left to you desolate

Judges 16:20

And she said to him, "[The] Philistines [are] upon you, Samson!" And he woke up from his sleep and said, "I will go out just like every other time and shake myself free," but he did not know that Yahweh had left him.

Error » Sin's penalty » Penalty sometimes delayed

Isaiah 48:9

For the sake of my name I {refrain from} my anger, and [for] my praise I restrain [it] for you [so as] not to cut you off.

1 Peter 3:20

who were formerly disobedient, when the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, [while] an ark was being constructed, in which a few--that is, eight souls--were rescued through water.

1 Kings 21:29

"Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring disaster in his days. I will bring the disaster on his house in the days of his son."

1 Kings 11:12

However, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of David your father; from the hand of your son I will tear it [away].

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

Deuteronomy 32:51

because [of the fact] that you broke faith with me in the midst of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kadesh, [in] the desert of Zin, because {you did not treat me as holy} in the midst of the {Israelites}.

Error » Known to God » Loved by men

Job 15:16

{How much less} he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water.

Job 20:12

"Though wickedness tastes sweet in his mouth, [and] he hides it under his tongue,

Psalm 52:3

You love evil more than good, a lie more than speaking {what is right}. Selah

Isaiah 5:18

Ah! Those who drag iniquity along with the cords of falsehood and sin as with rope of the cart,

Error » Definition of » Sin deceptive

1 Timothy 2:14

and Adam was not deceived, but the woman, [because she] was deceived, came into transgression.

Error » Definition of » To be forsaken

Colossians 2:11

in whom also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made by hands, by 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

Deuteronomy 25:16

For detestable to Yahweh your God [is] everyone who [is] doing such things, everyone who [is] acting dishonestly.

2 Samuel 11:27

When the mourning [was] over, David sent and brought her to his household, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing which David had done [was] evil in the eyes of Yahweh.

Psalm 5:4

For you [are] not a God [who] desires wickedness. Evil cannot dwell with you.

Error » Definition of » Despised by saints

Psalm 101:3

I will not set before my eyes any wicked thing. I hate the work of those who fall away; it will not cling to me.

2 Peter 2:7

and rescued righteous Lot, worn down by the way of life of lawless persons in licentiousness

Psalm 119:104

From your precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way.

Proverbs 8:7

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 will not bow down to them, and you will not serve them, because I [am] Yahweh your God, a jealous God, punishing [the] guilt of [the] parents on the children on [the] third and on [the] fourth [generations] of those hating me,

Numbers 14:33

And your children will be shepherds in the desert forty years, and you will bear your unfaithfulness until {all your corpses have fallen} in the desert.

Psalm 37:28

For Yahweh loves justice and will not forsake his faithful ones. They are protected forever. But [the] children of [the] wicked will be cut off.

Isaiah 14:20

You will not be united with them in burial because you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people. [The] descendants of evildoers will not be mentioned for eternity!

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 by speaking high-sounding but empty words}, they entice with desires of the flesh [and] with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error,

More verses: James 1:14

Error » Definition of » Forbidden

John 5:14

After these [things] Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well! Sin no longer, lest something worse happen to you."

John 8:11

And she said, "No one, Lord." So Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go, and sin no more."]]

More verses: 1 Corinthians 15:34

Error » Sin's penalty » Separation from God

Exodus 33:3

[Go] to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I will not go up among you, because you [are] a stiff-necked people, lest I destroy you on the way."

Joshua 7:11-12

Israel has sinned and {transgressed my covenant} that I commanded them. They have taken from the devoted things; they have stolen and acted deceitfully, and they have put [them] among their belongings. The {Israelites} were unable to stand before their enemies; {they fled from their enemies} because they have become a thing devoted for destruction. {I will be with you no more} unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

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 and did [things] deserving blows {will be given a light beating}. And from everyone to whom much has been given, much will be demanded, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will ask him [for] even more.

Leviticus 4:2

"Speak to the {Israelites}, saying, 'If a person sins by an unintentional wrong from any of Yahweh's commands that should not be {violated}, and he {violates} {any of them}--

Leviticus 5:17

"If a person when he sins {violates} one from all of Yahweh's commands that should not {be violated}, but he did not know, then he is guilty and he shall bear his guilt.

Acts 3:17

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

Error » Definition of » Forgiven

Psalm 78:38

But he [was] compassionate; he pardoned [their] guilt and did not destroy [them]. And many [times] he turned back his anger and did not stir up all his wrath,

Psalm 85:2

You took away the guilt of your people; you covered all their sin. Selah

Error » Sins » Of omission

Matthew 23:23

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you pay a tenth of mint and dill and cumin, and neglect the more important [matters] of the law--justice and mercy and faithfulness! It was necessary to do these [things] {while not neglecting those}.

Luke 12:47

And that slave who knew the will of his master and did not prepare or do according to his will {will be given a severe beating}.

Matthew 25:45

Then he will answer them, saying, 'Truly I say to you, in as much as you did not do [it] to one of the least of these, you did not do [it] to me.'

Error » Definition of » Origin of

James 4:1

From where [are] conflicts and from where [are] quarrels among you? [Is it] not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members?

Error » Definition of » Inexcusable

Romans 2:1

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, every one [of you] who passes judgment. For in that which you pass judgment on someone else, you condemn yourself, for you who are passing judgment are doing the same [things].

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin. But now they do not have a valid excuse for their sin.

Error » Definition of » Contempt for others

Proverbs 14:21

He who despises his neighbor is a sinner, but he who has mercy on the poor blesses him.

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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