16 Bible Verses about Unreliability

Indeed, I had in myself, and still have, the sentence of death, in order that I might not rely on myself, but on God who raises the dead to life.

Then he came to his disciples, and found them asleep, and said to Peter. "So you were none of you strong enough to watch with me even one hour!

Then he came and found them asleep, and he said to Peter. "Are you sleeping, Simon? Could you not keep watch one hour?

When he arose from his prayers, and came to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,

"But all this has happened in order that the Scriptures might be fulfilled."

Then they all forsook him and fled.

for many will come in my name saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many.

"Be ye watchful lest any one mislead you. Many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and will mislead many.

"Take heed," he answered, "that you are not led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and 'The time is close at hand.' Do not go and follow them.

For the philosophy of this world is foolishness in God's sight. It is written, He snares the wise in their own craftiness, and again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, how futile they are.

While they professed to be wise, they became fools,

For thus it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the philosophers, And the prudence of the prudent will I confound. Sage, rabbi, skeptic of this present age??here are they all? Has not God made foolish the philosophy of the world? For when, in the wisdom of God, the world by its philosophy knew not God, the world by its philosophy knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of preaching, to save those who believe.

For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.

Then Jesus said to him. "Put back your sword into its place! for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

"Store up for yourselves no treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

"And the seed sown among thorns is he who hears the word, but the anxieties of the age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.