20 Bible Verses about People Going Astray

“My people have become lost sheep;
Their shepherds have led them astray.
They have made them turn aside on the mountains;
They have gone along from mountain to hill
And have forgotten their resting place.

They will ask for the way to Zion, turning their faces in its direction; they will come that they may join themselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.

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

Whose paths are crooked,
And who are devious in their ways;

He is on the path of life who heeds instruction,
But he who ignores reproof goes astray.

Cease listening, my son, to discipline,
And you will stray from the words of knowledge.

in order that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. Thus they will be My people, and I shall be their God,”’ declares the Lord God.”

A man who wanders from the way of understanding
Will rest in the assembly of the dead.

But the Levites who went far from Me when Israel went astray, who went astray from Me after their idols, shall bear the punishment for their iniquity.

“But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept charge of My sanctuary when the sons 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.

It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge, who did not go astray when the sons of Israel went astray as the Levites went astray.

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

The more they called them,
The more they went from them;
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
And burning incense to idols.

Before I was afflicted I went astray,
But now I keep Your word.

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways,
Do not stray into her paths.

“Therefore I was angry with this generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they did not know My ways’;

But as for you, you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble by the instruction; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says the Lord of hosts.

All have turned aside, together they have become useless;
There is none who does good,
There is not even one.”

My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him back,

All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all
To fall on Him.