20 Bible Verses about People Going Astray

My people hath 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 restingplace.

They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.

The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even 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 GOD:

It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;

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