15 Bible Verses about Unreliability

in fact I told myself it was the sentence of death. But that was to make me rely not on myself but on the God who raises the dead;

Then he went to the disciples and found them asleep; and he said to Peter, "So the three of you could not watch with me for a single hour?

Then he came and found them asleep; so he said to Peter, "Are you sleeping, Simon? Could you not watch for a single hour?

Then rising from prayer he went to the disciples, only to find them asleep from sheer sorrow.

However, this has all happened for the fulfilment of the prophetic scriptures!" Then all the disciples left him and fled;

Then they left him and fled, all of them;

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

He said, "Take care that you are not misled; for many will come in my name saying, 'I am he' and 'the time is near' ??do not go after them.

For God ranks this world's wisdom as 'sheer folly.' It is written, He seizes the wise in their craftiness, and again, The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise is futile.

They claimed to be wise, but they have become fools;

It is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the sages, I will confound the insight of the wise. Sage, scribe, critic of this world, where are they all? Has not God stultified the wisdom of the world? For when the world with all its wisdom failed to know God in his wisdom, God resolved to save believers by the 'sheer folly' of the Christian message.

they get the name of 'wisdom' with their self-imposed devotions, with their fasting, with their rigorous discipline of the body, but they are of no value, they simply pamper the flesh!

Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; all who draw the sword shall die by the sword.

Store up no treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust corrode, where thieves break in and steal:

As for him who is sown 'among thorns,' that is the man who listens to the word, but the worry of the world and the delight of being rich choke the word; so it proves unfruitful.