30 Bible Verses about Error

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are overwhelmed with wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:

And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the 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 before, and shake myself. And he knew not that the LORD had departed from him.

But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

Who formerly were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing, in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.

Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth 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, in thy days, I will not do it, for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou shalt return to the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou return.

For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt surely die.

Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinketh iniquity like water?

Though wickedness may be sweet in his mouth, though he may hide it under his tongue;

Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

Woe to them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart-rope:

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

That ye put off concerning the former manner of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts:

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Wherefore, seeing we also are encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

That ye put off concerning the former manner of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts:

In whom also ye 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 that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but he who confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

And he said to them, Ye are they who justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God.

For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD thy God.

And when the 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 displeased the LORD.

For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

And delivered just Lot, grieved with the habitual lewdness of the wicked:

Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your lewd deeds, until your carcasses shall be wasted in the wilderness.

For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned.

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise; she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that had quite escaped from them who live in error.

When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, 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 earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

There is a way which seemeth right to a man, but the end of it are the ways of death.

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye sin not. And if any man sinneth, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

Wash ye, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou art cured: sin no more, lest a worse thing come to thee.

She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts of it.

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, 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 art a stiff-necked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own goods. Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

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, who is the faithful witness, and the first-begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him that 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:

Who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live to righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

But he that knew not, and committed things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For to whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required: and to whom men have committed much, from him they will ask the more.

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief:

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall violate any of them:

And if a soul shall sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he knew it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yes, many a time 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, hath he made alive together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said to David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.

Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the sick with the palsy, Son, thy sins are forgiven thee.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ye ought to have done, and not to leave the others undone.

And that servant who knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Then will he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

But woe to you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint, and rue, and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the others undone.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise; she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even from your lusts that war in your members?

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whoever thou art, that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest, doest the same things.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.

In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that restraineth his lips is wise.

The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

And he that doubteth is damned if he eateth, because he eateth not from faith: for whatever is not from faith is sin.

All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not to death.

Whoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law; for sin is the transgression of the law.

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Jesus answered and said to them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.