30 Bible Verses about Error
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But Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
Jesus said to them, "Is not this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.
My brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken."
We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler.
Do not allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Do not protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
"Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Remind them of these things, charging them in the presence of God, that they do not argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.
All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
"Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
"If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who barely escape from those who live in error;
forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
Then the administrators and the satraps sought to find a charge against Daniel regarding the kingdom; but they could find no charge or fault, because he was faithful. Neither was there any error or fault found in him.
in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, 'Peace'; and there is no peace; and when one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash:
And a highway will be there, and a way, and it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
The anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
For the fool will speak folly, and his heart plans iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against the 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
They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
Error » Sin's penalty » Abandonment by God
Therefore God also abandoned them in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,
Do not be like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.
Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.
She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson." He awoke out of his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." But he didn't know that the LORD had departed from him.
Error » Sin's penalty » Penalty sometimes delayed
In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off.
who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved by means of water.
"See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son's days will I bring the disaster on his house."
Notwithstanding 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, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."
because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not sanctify me in the midst of the children 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 is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope;
Error » Definition of » Sin deceptive
Adam was not deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Error » Definition of » To be forsaken
Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Error » Known to God » Hateful to God
He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.
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 the LORD.
For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.
The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
Error » Definition of » Despised by saints
I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked
Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Error » Definition of » Consequences of parents' sins upon children
you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor 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 on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
For the LORD loves justice, and doesn't forsake his holy ones. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named forever.
The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
Error » Known to God » Allurements of
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 one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who barely escape from those who live in error;
When I saw among the spoil a beautiful garment from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it."
There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
Error » Definition of » Forbidden
My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
Wash yourselves, make yourself 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, "See, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."
She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, 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 separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden 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 you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."
Israel has sinned, and they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. And they have even taken of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff. Therefore the children of Israel can't stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.
There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means 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,
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 freed us from our sins by his blood;
who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father?
who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by his stripes you were healed.
And he is the atoning sacrifice 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 stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them:
"If anyone sins, and does any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done; though he did not know it, yet he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
"Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
Error » Definition of » Forgiven
But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and did not destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." Nathan said to David, "The LORD also has put away your sin. You will not die.
You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.
And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you."
Error » Sins » Of omission
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the Law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
That servant, who knew his lord's will, and did not prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
To him therefore who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.
"Then he will answer them, saying, 'Truly I tell 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, but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
Error » Definition of » Origin of
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 one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.
Where do conflicts and quarrels among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that war in your members?
Error » Definition of » Inexcusable
Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice 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 since the creation of the world his invisible attributes, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made. So they are without excuse.
Error » Definition of » Contempt for others
He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who shows kindness to the poor.
Error » Definition of » Vain talk
In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains 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 of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
Error » Definition of » All unrighteousness
Error » Definition of » Transgression of the law
Error » Definition of » Neglect of opportunity
To him therefore who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.
Ignorance of God » Leads to » Error
But Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.