30 Bible Verses about Error
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Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust 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 before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:
And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
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Drunkenness » Leads to » 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 of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Error » Sin's penalty » Abandonment by God
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
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 thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
Error » Sin's penalty » Penalty sometimes delayed
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites 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.
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by 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
Wherefore, 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 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 gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ 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 among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, 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 more abominable and filthy is man, which 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 vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
Error » Definition of » Sin deceptive
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers 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 wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Error » Definition of » To be forsaken
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us 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,
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
In whom also ye 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 covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Error » Known to God » Hateful to God
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth 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 thy God.
And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Error » Definition of » Despised by saints
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Error » Definition of » Consequences of parents' sins upon children
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy 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 whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
For the LORD loveth judgment, 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, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle 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 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 were clean escaped from them who live in error.
When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish 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 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 sin not. 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 come unto thee.
She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in 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, 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, 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 dissembled 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, except ye destroy the accursed 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, because of our iniquities.
Error » Sins » Our deliverance from, through Christ
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 loved 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 and our Father:
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should 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 sins of the whole world.
Error » Sins » Of ignorance
But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever 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 injurious: 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 do against any of them:
And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
Error » Definition of » Forgiven
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, hath he quickened 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 hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.
Error » Sins » Of omission
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
And that servant, which 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 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 to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: 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 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 out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Error » Definition of » Inexcusable
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke 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 Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Error » Definition of » Contempt for others
He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
Error » Definition of » Vain talk
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Error » Definition of » Foolish thoughts
The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
Error » Definition of » Unbelief
And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
Error » Definition of » All unrighteousness
Error » Definition of » Transgression of the law
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Error » Definition of » Neglect of opportunity
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Ignorance of God » Leads to » Error
Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.