41 Bible Verses about Making Mistakes

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1 Peter 3:17

For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

Job 4:18

‘He puts no trust even in His servants;
And against His angels He charges error.

Numbers 32:23

But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.

Ecclesiastes 5:6

Do not let your speech cause you to sin and do not say in the presence of the messenger of God that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry on account of your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

Numbers 15:25

Then the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and they will be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their error.

Psalm 25:7

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
According to Your lovingkindness remember me,
For Your goodness’ sake, O Lord.

Proverbs 4:15

Avoid it, do not pass by it;
Turn away from it and pass on.

Hebrews 8:7

For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.

2 Corinthians 10:14

For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we were the first to come even as far as you in the gospel of Christ;

Isaiah 5:20

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Leviticus 5:1

‘Now if a person sins after he hears a public adjuration to testify when he is a witness, whether he has seen or otherwise known, if he does not tell it, then he will bear his guilt.

Ecclesiastes 5:4

When you make a vow to God, do not be late in paying it; for He takes no delight in fools. Pay what you vow!

Proverbs 14:22

Will they not go astray who devise evil?
But kindness and truth will be to those who devise good.

Matthew 14:28

Peter said to Him, “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.”

Mark 12:24

Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures or the power of God?

Isaiah 65:7

Both their own iniquities and the iniquities of their fathers together,” says the Lord.
“Because they have burned incense on the mountains
And scorned Me on the hills,
Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom.”

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