30 Bible Verses about Error

Even these men stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer -- priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions.

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

Don't be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their ancestors, provoking him to destroy them, as you can see.

Look, your house is left to you desolate!

Now the Spirit of the Lord had turned away from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented him.

She said, "The Philistines are here, Samson!" He woke up and thought, "I will do as I did before and shake myself free." But he did not realize that the Lord had left him.

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit."

For the sake of my reputation I hold back my anger; for the sake of my prestige I restrain myself from destroying you.

after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.

"Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse before me? Because he shows remorse before me, I will not bring disaster on his dynasty during his lifetime, but during the reign of his son."

However, for your father David's sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son's hand instead.

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned --

By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return."

For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die."

for both of you rebelled against me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the desert of Zin when you did not show me proper respect among the Israelites.

who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;

how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!

"If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking the truth. (Selah)

Those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, because she was fully deceived, fell into transgression.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

Now the beast was seized, and along with him the false prophet who had performed the signs on his behalf -- signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called "Today," that none of you may become hardened by sin's deception.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

In him you also were circumcised -- not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.

The one who covers his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses them and forsakes them will find mercy.

But Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in men's eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God's sight.

For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the Lord your God.

When the time of mourning passed, David had her brought to his palace. She became his wife and she bore him a son. But what David had done upset the Lord.

Certainly you are not a God who approves of evil; evil people cannot dwell with you.

The Lord approves of the godly, but he hates the wicked and those who love to do violence.

I will not even consider doing what is dishonest. I hate doing evil; I will have no part of it.

and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless men,

Your precepts give me discernment. Therefore I hate all deceitful actions.

(Samek) I hate people with divided loyalties, but I love your law.

For my mouth speaks truth, and my lips hate wickedness.

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,

and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness.

For the Lord promotes justice, and never abandons his faithful followers. They are permanently secure, but the children of evil men are wiped out.

You will not be buried with them, because you destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again.

The household of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

I saw among the goods we seized a nice robe from Babylon, two hundred silver pieces, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels. I wanted them, so I took them. They are hidden in the ground right in the middle of my tent with the silver underneath."

There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death.

"Stolen waters are sweet, and food obtained in secret is pleasant!"

(My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One,

Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning!

After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well. Don't sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you."

She replied, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more."]]

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

But your sinful acts have alienated you from your God; your sins have caused him to reject you and not listen to your prayers.

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way."

Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenantal commandment! They have taken some of the riches; they have stolen them and deceitfully put them among their own possessions. The Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they retreat because they have become subject to annihilation. I will no longer be with you, unless you destroy what has contaminated you.

If I had harbored sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

No one invokes your name, or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.

For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received -- that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

and from Jesus Christ -- the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father,

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.

and he himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world.

But the one who did not know his master's will and did things worthy of punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required, and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be asked.

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,

"Tell the Israelites, 'When a person sins by straying unintentionally from any of the Lord's commandments which must not be violated, and violates any one of them --

"If a person sins and violates any of the Lord's commandments which must not be violated (although he did not know it at the time, but later realizes he is guilty), then he will bear his punishment for iniquity

And now, brothers, I know you acted in ignorance, as your rulers did too.

Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury.

And even though you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions.

Then David exclaimed to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord!" Nathan replied to David, "Yes, and the Lord has forgiven your sin. You are not going to die.

You pardoned the wrongdoing of your people; you forgave all their sin. (Selah)

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven."

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law -- justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You should have done these things without neglecting the others.

That servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.

So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.

Then he will answer them, 'I tell you the truth, just as you did not do it for one of the least of these, you did not do it for me.'

"But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of your mint, rue, and every herb, yet you neglect justice and love for God! But you should have done these things without neglecting the others.

When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes -- his eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.

The one who despises his neighbor sins, but whoever is kind to the needy is blessed.

When words abound, transgression is inevitable, but the one who restrains his words is wise.

A foolish scheme is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to people.

But the man who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not do so from faith, and whatever is not from faith is sin.

All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.

So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.

Jesus answered them, "You are deceived, because you don't know the scriptures or the power of God.