16 Bible Verses about Unreliability

Yes, I felt within my very self the sentence of death, to keep me from depending on myself instead of God who raises the dead.

Then He came back to the disciples and found them asleep. He said to Peter, "Could you not then watch with me a single hour?

And He went back and found them asleep, and He said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch a single hour?

When He rose from His prayer, He went to the disciples and found them asleep from sorrow.

But this has all taken place so that the writings of the prophets may be fulfilled." Then the disciples all forsook Him and made their escape.

Then all His disciples forsook Him and made their escape.

for many will come bearing the name of the Messiah, and saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many people.

Many will come bearing the name of Messiah, and saying, 'I am He,' and they will mislead many.

So He said, "You must take care not to be misled about it! For many will come bearing the name of Messiah, and saying, 'I am He,' and, 'The time is near.' Do not go after them.

For this world's wisdom is mere nonsense to God. For the Scripture says, "He who catches the wise with their own cunning," and again, "The Lord knows that the arguings of the wise are useless."

Though claiming to be wise, they made fools of themselves,

For the Scripture says: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the learning of the learned." So where is your philosopher? Where is your man of letters? Where is your logician of this age? Has not God shown up the nonsense of the world's wisdom? For since in accordance with the wisdom of God the world had never in reality, by means of its wisdom, come to know God, God chose through the nonsense of the message proclaimed, to save the people who put their faith in Him.

Such practices have the outward expression of wisdom, with their self-imposed devotions, their self-humiliation, their torturings of the body, but they are of no value; they really satisfy the lower nature.

Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back where it belongs, for all who wield the sword will die by the sword.

"Stop storing up your riches on earth where moths and rust make away with them, and where thieves break in and steal them.

And what was sown among the thorns illustrates the man who hears the message, and the worries of the times and the pleasures of being rich choke the truth out, and he yields no fruit.