16 Bible Verses about Unreliability

but we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, Are you so unable to watch with me one hour?

And he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, do you sleep? Could you not watch one hour?

And rising from prayer, and coming to the disciples, he found them sleeping from grief,

but all this was done that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then the disciples all forsook him and fled.

And all forsook him and fled.

for many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and shall deceive many.

for many shall come in my name, saying, I am [the Christ], and shall deceive many.

And he said, See that you be not deceived; for many shall come in my name, saying, I am [Christ], and the time is at hand; go not after them.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written; He takes the wise in their craftiness. And again; The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that they are vain.

Saying that they were wise they became foolish,

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the intelligent. Where is the wise? where the scribe? where the disputer of this life? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, God was pleased by the foolishness of preaching to save those that believe;

Which have an appearance of wisdom in voluntary worship and humiliation, and in a rigorous treatment of the body, [which is held] in no respect for the surfeiting of the flesh.

Then Jesus said to him, Put up your sword in its place; for all who take the sword shall perish by the sword.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where a moth and corrosion destroy, and where thieves dig through and steal.

And he that received seed among thorns is he that hears the word, and the cares of this life and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.