30 Bible Verses about Error

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:

And be not like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as you see.

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

But the spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

And she said, The Philistines be upon you, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he knew not that the LORD was departed from him.

But in the fourth generation they shall come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.

For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I restrain it for you, that I cut you not off.

Who formerly were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, by which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water.

See you how Ahab humbles himself before me? because he humbles 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.

Nevertheless in your days I will not do it for David your father's sake: but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return unto the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you are, and unto dust shall you return.

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die.

Because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you hallowed me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of the wicked;

How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

You love evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that worked miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

That you put off concerning the former way of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Therefore seeing we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily ensnare us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

That you put off concerning the former way of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whosoever confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.

And he said unto them, You are they who justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD your God.

And when the mourning was past, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with you.

The LORD tests the righteous: but the wicked and him that loves violence his soul hates.

I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy behavior of the wicked:

Through your precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

[Samek] I hate vain thoughts: but your law do I love.

For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your harlotries, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.

For the LORD loves justice, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.

You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, and slain your people: the descendants of evildoers shall never be renowned.

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tent of the upright shall flourish.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that have just escaped from them who live in error.

When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, 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 seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

My little children, these things write I unto you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

Wash you, make yourself clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, you are made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto you.

She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn you: go, and sin no more.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you; for you are a stiff-necked people: lest I consume you in the way.

Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and deceived also, and they have put it even among their own stuff. Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, unless you destroy the accursed from among you.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

And there is none that calls upon your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.

For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loves us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God our Father:

Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and insolent: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall act against any one of them:

And if a soul sins, and commits any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he knew it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance you did it, as did also your rulers.

But he, being full of compassion, 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 in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, has he made alive together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.

You have forgiven the iniquity of your people, you have covered all their sin. Selah.

When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the paralytic, Son, your sins be forgiven you.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith: these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

And that servant, who knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Since you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.

But woe unto you, Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over justice and the love of God: these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and 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 proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.

From where come wars and fightings among you? come they not from here, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whosoever you are that judge: for in what you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you that judge do the same things.

If I had not come and spoken unto them, they would not have sin: but now they have no cover for their sin.

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and deity; so that they are without excuse:

He that despises his neighbor sins: but he that has mercy on the poor, happy is he.

In the multitude of words there lacks not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.

The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scoffer is an abomination to men.

And he that doubts is condemned if he eats, because he eats not of faith: for whatever is not of faith is sin.

All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

Jesus answered and said unto them, You do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.