20 Bible Verses about People Going Astray
Most Relevant Verses
My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting-place.
They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces thitherward,'saying , Come ye, and join yourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.
For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
He is in the way of life that heedeth correction; But he that forsaketh reproof erreth.
Cease, my son, to hear instruction Only to err from the words of knowledge.
that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord Jehovah.
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
But the Levites that went far from me, when Israel went astray, that went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.
But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me; and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord Jehovah:
It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, that have kept my charge, that went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
Woe unto them! for they have wandered from me; destruction unto them! for they have trespassed against me: though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;
But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.
They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
