20 Bible Verses about People Going Astray

"My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone. They have forgotten their fold.

They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, 'Come, let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.'

For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.

Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.

Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, nor defile themselves anymore with all their transgressions, but that they may be my people and I may be their God, declares the Lord GOD."

One who wanders from the way of good sense will rest in the assembly of the dead.

But the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols when Israel went astray, shall bear their punishment.

"But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. And they shall stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the Lord GOD.

This shall be for the consecrated priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge, who did not go astray when the people of Israel went astray, as the Levites did.

Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.

The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.

Let not your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths,

Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, 'They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.'

But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts,

All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one."

My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned--every one--to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.