30 Bible Verses about Error
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Jesus answered and said to them, You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.
And answering Jesus said to them, Do you not err because of this, not knowing Scriptures, nor the power of God?
know that he who turns back the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
We are of God. He who knows God hears us. The one 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 I have seen under the sun, like a sin which comes from a ruler's presence;
Do not allow your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; do not say before the angel that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?
Therefore, beloved, knowing beforehand, beware lest being led away with the error of the lawless, you fall from your own steadfastness.
Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.
Put them in memory of these things, charging them before the Lord not to dispute about words to no profit, to the subverting of the hearers.
And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with me.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie,
so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another; males with males working out shamefulness, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting for their error.
All Scripture is God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
But if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they lure through the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lust, the ones who were escaping from those who live in error;
who have forsaken the right way and have gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
Then the presidents and rulers sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom. But they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. Neither was there any error or fault found in him.
in meekness instructing those who oppose, if perhaps God will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth,
Because, even because they made My people go astray, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and he builds a wall, and lo, others daubed it with lime.
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 He shall be with them; the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err in it.
And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Uzzah. And God struck him there for the error. And he died there by the ark of God.
For the fool will speak folly, and his heart work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy and to speak error against Jehovah, to make the soul of the hungry empty, and he will take away the drink of the thirsty.
From Thematic Bible
Drunkenness » Leads to » Error
But they also have sinned through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way. The priest and the prophet have sinned through drink; they are swallowed up by wine; they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Error » Sin's penalty » Abandonment by God
Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.
And do not be like your fathers and like your brothers who sinned against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and He made them for a horror, as you see.
But the spirit of Jehovah departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Jehovah terrified him.
And she said, The Philistines are upon you, Samson! And he awoke out of his sleep and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he did not know that Jehovah had departed from him.
Error » Sin's penalty » Penalty sometimes delayed
But in the fourth generation they shall come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
For My name's sake I will put off My anger, and for My praise I will hold back for you, that I do not cut you off.
to disobeying ones, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared (in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water);
Do you see 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 I will bring the evil on his house.
But I will not do it in your days, for David your father's sake, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
Error » Sin's penalty » Death, physical and spiritual
Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed on all men inasmuch as all sinned:
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
but you shall not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. For in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
because you sinned against Me among the sons of Israel at the Waters of Strife in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because you did not sanctify Me in the midst of the sons of Israel.
Error » Known to God » Loved by men
How much more hateful and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?
Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue;
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin with cart ropes;
Error » Definition of » Sin deceptive
For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet doing signs before it, (by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast), and those who had worshiped his image. The two were thrown alive into the Lake of Fire burning with brimstone.
For you ought to put off the old man (according to your way of living before) who is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
But exhort one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Error » Definition of » To be forsaken
Therefore since we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Dearly beloved, I exhort you as temporary residents and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
For you ought to put off the old man (according to your way of living before) who is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
in whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ,
He who covers his sins shall not be blessed; but whoever confesses and leaves them shall have mercy.
Error » Known to God » Hateful to God
And He said to them, You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
For all that do such things, all that do unrighteousness, are hateful to Jehovah your God.
And when her mourning was past, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the eyes of Jehovah.
For You are not a God that enjoys wickedness; nor shall evil dwell with You.
Jehovah tries the righteous; but His soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence,
Error » Definition of » Despised by saints
I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. I have hated the work of those who turn aside; it shall not hold on to me.
And He delivered righteous Lot, oppressed with the lustful behavior of the lawless.
Through Your Commandments I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
SAMECH: I hate half-hearted thoughts; but Your Law do I love.
Error » Definition of » Consequences of parents' sins upon children
You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. For I Jehovah your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation of those that hate me,
And your sons shall feed in the wilderness forty years and bear your fornications, until your dead bodies have wasted in the wilderness.
For Jehovah loves judgment and does not forsake His saints; they are kept forever; but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you ruined your land and killed your people; the seed of evildoers shall never be famous.
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown, but the tent of the upright shall be blessed.
Error » Known to God » Allurements of
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make wise, she took of its fruit, and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they lure through the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lust, the ones who were escaping from those who live in error;
When I saw among the spoil a goodly robe of Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, I coveted them and took them. And behold, they are hidden in the earth in the middle of my tent, and the silver under it.
There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end of it is the ways of death.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Error » Definition of » Forbidden
My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes; cease to do evil;
Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, Behold, you are made whole. Sin no more lest a worse thing come to you.
And she said, No one, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I give judgment. Go, and sin no more.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
Error » Sin's penalty » Separation from God
But your iniquities have come between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing.
to a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way.
Israel has sinned, and they have also broken My covenant which I commanded them, and have even taken of the cursed things, and have also stolen and pretended falsely. And they have even put it among their own stuff. And the sons of Israel could not stand before their enemies. They will turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become cursed. I will not be with you again, unless you destroy the one who is cursed from among you.
If I regard iniquity in my heart, Jehovah will not hear;
And there is no one who calls on Your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us, and have melted us away because of our iniquities.
Error » Sins » Our deliverance from, through Christ
For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures,
even from Jesus Christ the faithful Witness, the First-born from the dead and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,
who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God and our Father,
He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that dying to sins, we might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
And He is the propitiation concerning our sins, and not concerning ours only, but also concerning the sins of all the world.
Error » Sins » Of ignorance
But he not knowing, and doing things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For to whomever much is given, of him much shall be required. And to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
the one who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and insolent. But I obtained mercy, because being ignorant, I did it in unbelief.
Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of Jehovah concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do any one of them,
And if a soul sins, and he has done that which ought not to be done, any one from all the commands of Jehovah, and does not know, and he is guilty and bears his iniquity;
And now, brothers, I know that you did it through ignorance, as also your rulers did.
Error » Definition of » Forgiven
But He, full of pity, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; yea, many times He turned His anger away, and did not stir up all His wrath.
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan said to David, Jehovah also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people; You have covered all their sins. Selah.
Error » Sins » Of omission
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and you have left undone the weightier matters of the Law, judgment, mercy, and faith. You ought to have done these and not to leave the other undone.
And that servant who knew his lord's will and did not prepare, nor did according to His will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
Then He shall answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.
But woe to you, Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over judgment and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to leave the other undone.
Error » Definition of » Origin of
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make wise, she took of its fruit, and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies;
Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin. And sin, when it is fully formed, brings forth death.
From where do wars and fightings among you come? Is it not from this, from your lusts which war in your members?
Error » Definition of » Inexcusable
Therefore you are without excuse, O man, everyone who judges; for in that in which you judge another, you condemn yourself, for you who judge do 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 unseen things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being realized by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, for them to be without excuse.
Error » Definition of » Contempt for others
Error » Definition of » Vain talk
In the multitude of words, sin is not lacking; but he who holds back his lips is wise.
Error » Definition of » Foolish thoughts
Error » Definition of » Unbelief
But, the one doubting, if he eats, he has been condemned, because it is not of faith; and all that is not of 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
Jesus answered and said to them, You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.