41 Bible Verses about Making Mistakes

For we all stumble [in] many [ways]. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he [is] a perfect individual, able to hold in check his whole body also.

Also, a life without knowledge is not good, and he who moves quickly with [his] feet {misses the mark}.

putting up with one another and forgiving one another. If anyone should have a complaint against anyone, just as also the Lord forgave you, thus also you [do the same].

You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

Do not swerve right or left; remove your foot from evil.

Surely there is no one righteous on the earth who [continually] does good and never sins.

But Jesus answered [and] said to them, "You are mistaken, [because] you do not know the scriptures or the power of God!

In many words, transgression is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is prudent.

For [it is] better to suffer for doing good, {if God wills it}, than for doing evil.

Look, he does not trust in his servants and he charges his angels with error.

But if you do not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh, and know that your sin will find you.

Do not let your mouth lead your flesh into sin, and do not tell the messenger that it [was] a mistake. Why anger God at your words, so that he destroys the work of your hands?

It is better that you not vow than that you vow and not fulfill it.

The priest will make atonement for all of the community of the {Israelites}, and {they will be forgiven} because it [was] unintentional; they will bring their offering, an offering made by fire for Yahweh, their sin offering {before Yahweh} for their unintentional sin.

being able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and led astray, since he himself also is surrounded by weakness,

As for the folly of humankind, its way leads to ruin, and against Yahweh his heart will rage.

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions. According to your loyal love remember me [if] you [will], for the sake of your goodness, O Yahweh.

[The] steps of a man are established by Yahweh, and he takes pleasure in his way.

Avoid it; do not transgress it; turn away from it and pass by.

he should know that the one who turns a sinner back from the error of his way will save that person's soul from death, and will cover over a great number of sins.

God [is] not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of humankind, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do [it]? And has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it

For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, occasion would not have been sought for a second.

Reprove those who sin in the presence of all, in order that the rest also may experience fear.

The way of the wicked ones [is] like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.

For we are not overextending ourselves, as [if we] had not reached you, because we have reached even as far as you with the gospel of Christ,

and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

Ah! Those who call evil good and good evil, those who put darkness for light and light for darkness, those who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

And you must not oppress {one another}, but you shall revere your God, because I [am] Yahweh, your God.

So God created humankind in his image, in the likeness of God he created him, male and female he created them.

"I regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not kept my word." {Samuel became angry}, and he cried out to Yahweh all night.

" 'When a person sins in that he hears [the] utterance of a curse and he [is] a witness or he sees or he knows, if he does not make [it] known, then he shall bear his guilt.

Who can perceive [his] errors? Acquit me from hidden [faults].

The way of a fool is upright in his [own] eyes, but he who listens to advice [is] wise.

When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, for {he takes no pleasure} in fools. Fulfill what you vow!

Have they not erred, those who plan evil? But loyalty and faithfulness [belong to] those who plan good.

And Peter answered him [and] said, "Lord, if {it is you}, command me to come to you on the water!"

For what credit [is it] if, [when you] sin and are beaten [for it], you endure? But if you endure [when you] do good and suffer [for it], this [finds] favor with God.

Jesus said to them, "Are you not deceived because of this, [because you] do not know the scriptures or the power of God?

your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestors together, says Yahweh, because they made smoke offerings on the mountains and they taunted me on the hills, I will measure their punishment [from the] beginning into the fold of their garment."

[Live] as free [persons], and not using your freedom as a covering for evil, but as slaves of God.

Wash! Make yourselves clean! Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes! Cease to do evil!