30 Bible Verses about Error
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But Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
Jesus said unto them, Is it not for this cause that ye err, that ye know not the scriptures, nor the power of God?
let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he who is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that is was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
Ye therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness.
Every word of God is tried: He is a shield unto them that take refuge in him.
Add thou not unto his words, Lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.
And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie:
that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.
Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness.
Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants; And his angels he chargeth with folly:
For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;
forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the'son of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;
Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.
in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,
Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and when one buildeth up a wall, behold, they daub it with untempered mortar :
And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but is shall be for the redeemed : the wayfaring men, yea fools, shall not err therein .
And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
From Thematic Bible
Drunkenness » Leads to » Error
And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Error » Sin's penalty » Abandonment by God
Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:
And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
Now the Spirit of Jehovah departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Jehovah troubled him.
And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free. But he knew not that Jehovah was departed from him.
Error » Sin's penalty » Penalty sometimes delayed
And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.
For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:
Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
Error » Sin's penalty » Death, physical and spiritual
Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:--
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
Error » Known to God » Loved by men
How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,
Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope;
Error » Definition of » Sin deceptive
and Adam was not beguiled, but the woman being beguiled hath fallen into transgression:
For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone:
that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called To-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin:
Error » Definition of » To be forsaken
Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;
that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper: But whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.
Error » Known to God » Hateful to God
And he said unto them, Ye are they that justify yourselves in the sight of men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
For all that do such things, even all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
And when the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Jehovah.
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with thee.
Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Error » Definition of » Despised by saints
I will set no base thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave unto me.
and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked
Through thy precepts I get understanding: Therefore I hate every false way.
For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Error » Definition of » Consequences of parents' sins upon children
Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them, for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,
And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
For Jehovah loveth justice, And forsaketh not his saints; They are preserved for ever: But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever.
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; But the tent of the upright shall flourish.
Error » Known to God » Allurements of
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.
For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;
when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonish mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death.
Error » Definition of » Forbidden
My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing befall thee.
And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said, Neither do I condemn thee: go thy way; from henceforth sin no more.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:
Error » Sin's penalty » Separation from God
but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, so that he will not hear.
unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiffnecked people, lest I consume thee in the way.
Israel hath sinned; yea, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: yea, they have even taken of the devoted thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also; and they have even put it among their own stuff. Therefore the children of Israel cannot stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, because they are become accursed: I will not be with you any more, except ye destroy the devoted thing from among you.
And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us by means of our iniquities.
Error » Sins » Our deliverance from, through Christ
For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;
who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father:
who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.
and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
Error » Sins » Of ignorance
but he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few'stripes . And to whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required: and to whom they commit much, of him will they ask the more.
though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: howbeit I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any one shall sin unwittingly, in any of the things which Jehovah hath commanded not to be done, and shall do any one of them:
And if any one sin, and do any of the things which Jehovah hath commanded not to be done; though he knew it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
And now, brethren, I know that in ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
Error » Definition of » Forgiven
But he, being merciful, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath.
And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, I say , did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;
And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan said unto David, Jehovah also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; Thou hast covered all their sin. Selah
And Jesus seeing their faith saith unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins are forgiven.
Error » Sins » Of omission
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.
And that servant, who knew his lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many'stripes ;
To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of these least, ye did it not unto me.
But woe unto you Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God: but these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Error » Definition of » Origin of
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:
Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.
Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
Error » Definition of » Inexcusable
Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judges another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things.
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin.
For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse:
Error » Definition of » Contempt for others
He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth; But he that hath pity on the poor, happy is he.
Error » Definition of » Vain talk
In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; But he that refraineth his lips doeth wisely.
Error » Definition of » Foolish thoughts
The thought of foolishness is sin; And the scoffer is an abomination to men.
Error » Definition of » Unbelief
But he that doubteth is condemned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith; and whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
Error » Definition of » All unrighteousness
Error » Definition of » Transgression of the law
Error » Definition of » Neglect of opportunity
To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Ignorance of God » Leads to » Error
But Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.