30 Bible Verses about Error
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Jesus answered and said unto them, "Ye are deceived, and understand not what the scripture meaneth, nor yet the power of God.
Jesus answered, and said unto them, "Are ye not therefore deceived, and understand not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
Who can tell how oft he offendeth? O cleanse thou me from my secret faults.
let the same know, that he which converted the sinner from going astray out of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide the multitude of sins. {Here ends the General Epistle of James}
He is not the God of the dead: but the God of the living. Ye are therefore greatly deceived."
We be of God, and he that knoweth God heareth us: and he that is not of God, heareth us not. And hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Another plague is there, which I have seen under the sun; namely, the ignorance that is commonly among princes:
Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh for to sin, neither say thou before the angel that it is thy ignorance. For then God will be angry at thy voice, and destroy all the works of thine hands.
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know it beforehand: Beware, lest ye be also plucked away with the error of the wicked, and fall from your own steadfastness;
All the words of God are pure and clean, for he is a shield unto all them that put their trust in him.
Put thou nothing therefore unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found as a liar.
Of these things put them in remembrance, and testify before the Lord, that they strive not about words, which is to no profit, but to pervert the hearers.
And therefore God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe lies:
That we henceforth be no more children, wavering and carried with every wind of doctrine, by the wiliness of men and craftiness, whereby they lay a wait for us to deceive us.
And likewise also the men left the natural use of the woman, and burnt in their lusts, one on another, among themselves. And man with man wrought filthiness: and received in themselves the reward of their error, as it was according.
For all scripture given by inspiration of God, is profitable to teach, to improve, to amend, and to instruct in righteousness,
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and wherein I have erred, cause me to understand.
"Moreover, if thy brother trespass against thee, Go and tell him his fault between him and thee alone. If he hear thee, thou hast won thy brother:
Behold, he hath found unfaithfulness among his own servants, and proud disobedience among his angels.
For when they have spoken the swelling words of vanity, they beguile with wantonness through the lusts of the flesh them that were clean escaped: but now are wrapped in errors.
and have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, which loved the reward of unrighteousness:
Wherefore the princes and lords sought to pick out in Daniel some quarrel against the kingdom: yet could they find none occasion nor fault upon him. For why? He was so faithful, that there was no blame nor dishonesty found in him.
and one that can suffer the evil in meekness, and can inform them that resist - if that God at any time will give them repentance for to know the truth -
"'And that for this cause: they have deceived my people, and told them of peace, where no peace was. One setteth up a wall, and they daub it with loose clay.
There shall be foot paths and common streets: this shall be called the holy way. No unclean person shall go through it, for the LORD himself shall go with them that way, and the ignorant shall not err.
And the LORD was wrath with Uzzah; and God smote him in the same place for his fault, and there he died by the ark of God.
But the churl will be churlishly minded, and his heart will work evil and play the hypocrite, and imagine abominations against God, to make the hungry lean, and withhold drink from the thirsty.
From Thematic Bible
Drunkenness » Leads to » Error
But they go wrong by the reason of wine, they fall and stagger because of strong drink. Yea even the priests and prophets themselves go amiss, they are drunken with wine, and weak brained through strong drink. They fail in prophesying, and stumble in judgment.
Error » Sin's penalty » Abandonment by God
Wherefore God, likewise, gave them up unto their hearts' lusts, unto uncleanness to defile their own bodies between themselves:
And be ye not like your fathers and your brethren which trespassed against the LORD of your fathers, which therefore gave them up that they are wasted, as ye see.
But the spirit of the LORD departed from Saul; and an evil spirit, sent of the LORD, vexed him.
And she said, "The Philistines be upon thee, Samson." And he awoke out of his sleep and thought to go out as at other times before and shake himself, and knew not that the LORD was departed from him.
Error » Sin's penalty » Penalty sometimes delayed
and in the fourth generation they shall come hither again, for the wickedness of the Amorites is not yet full."
Nevertheless, for my name's sake, I have withdrawn my wrath, and for mine honour's sake I have overseen thee, so that I have not rooted thee out.
which were in time past disobedient, when the long suffering of God abode exceeding patiently in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few - that is to say eight souls - were saved by water,
"Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? Because he so submitteth himself before me, I will not bring that evil in his days: but in his son's days, I will bring evil upon his house."
Notwithstanding, in thy days I will not do it, because of David thy father: but I will take it from thy son.
Error » Sin's penalty » Death, physical and spiritual
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by the means of sin; And so death went over all men, insomuch that all men sinned.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return unto the earth whence thou wast taken: for earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return."
For the reward of sin is death: but eternal life is the gift of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
But of the tree of knowledge of good and bad see that thou eat not: For even the same day thou eatest of it, thou shalt surely die.
For ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of strife, at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin: because ye sanctified me not among the children of Israel.
Error » Known to God » Loved by men
How much more then an abominable and vile man, which drinketh wickedness like water?
Thou lovest ungraciousness more than good, to talk of lies more than righteousness. Selah.
Woe be unto vain persons, that draw wickedness unto them with cords of vanity; and sin, as it were with a cart rope.
Error » Definition of » Sin deceptive
Also Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived, and was in transgression.
For we ourselves also were in times past, unwise, disobedient, deceived, in danger to lusts, and to divers manners of voluptuousness, living in maliciousness and envy, full of hate, hating one another.
And the beast was taken, and with him that false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that received the beast's mark, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast into a pond of fire burning with brimstone:
so then, as concerning the conversation in time past, lay from you that old man, which is corrupt through the deceivable lusts,
but exhort one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you wax hard hearted through the deceitfulness of sin.
Error » Definition of » To be forsaken
Wherefore let us also - seeing that we are compassed with so great a multitude of witnesses - lay away all that presseth down, and the sin that hangeth on us, and let us run with patience, unto the battle that is set before us,
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers, and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which fight against the soul,
so then, as concerning the conversation in time past, lay from you that old man, which is corrupt through the deceivable lusts,
In whom also ye are circumcised with circumcision made without hands, by putting off the sinful body of the flesh, through the circumcision that is in Christ,
He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper; but who so knowledgeth them 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 abominable in the sight of God.
For all that do such things and all that do unright, are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
and she was his wife and bare him a son. But the deed that David had committed displeased the LORD.
For thou art the God that hast no pleasure in wickedness; neither shall any evil dwell with thee.
The LORD alloweth the righteous; but the ungodly, and him that delighteth in wickedness, doth his soul abhor.
Error » Definition of » Despised by saints
I will take no wicked thing in hand. I hate the sin of unfaithfulness; it shall not cleave unto me.
And just Lot, vexed with the uncleanly conversation of the wicked, delivered he -
Through thy commandments I get understanding; therefore I hate all false ways.
For my throat shall be talking of the truth, and my lips abhor ungodliness.
Error » Definition of » Consequences of parents' sins upon children
See that thou neither bow thyself unto them neither serve them: for I, the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sin of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
And your children shall wander in this wilderness forty years and suffer for your whoredom until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness,
For the LORD loveth the thing that is right; he forsaketh not his saints, but they are preserved forever. The unrighteous shall be punished; as for the seed of the ungodly, it shall be rooted out.
and art not buried with them. Even because that thou hast wasted thy land, and destroyed thy people. For the generation of the wicked shall be without honour, forever.
The houses of the ungodly shall be overthrown; but the tabernacles of the righteous shall flourish.
Error » Known to God » Allurements of
And the woman saw that it was a good tree to eat of, and lusty unto the eyes, and a pleasant tree for to make wise. And took of the fruit of it and ate, and gave unto her husband also with her, and he ate.
For when they have spoken the swelling words of vanity, they beguile with wantonness through the lusts of the flesh them that were clean escaped: but now are wrapped in errors.
I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundredth sicles of silver, and a tongue of gold of fifty sicles weight: and I coveted them, and I took them. And behold they lie hid in the earth in my tent and the silver thereunder."
There is a way which some men think to be right; but the end thereof leadeth unto death.
"Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread that is privily eaten, hath a good taste."
Error » Definition of » Forbidden
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye should sin not: if, though, any man sin, yet we have an Advocate with the father, even Jesus Christ, which is righteous.
Thus saith the LORD God: Wash and be clean; put away the wickedness of your imaginations out of my sight. Cease to do evil and learn to do well.
And after that, Jesus found him in the temple, and said unto him, "Behold, thou art made whole: see thou sin no more, lest a worse thing happen unto thee."
She said, "No man, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn thee. Go hence and sin no more."
Let not sin reign therefore in your mortal bodies, that ye should thereunto obey in the lusts of it.
Error » Sin's penalty » Separation from God
But your misdeeds have separated you from your God, and your sins hide his face from you, that he heareth you not.
that thou mayest go in to a land that floweth with milk and honey. But I will not go among you myself, for ye are a stiffnecked people: lest I consume you by the way."
Israel hath sinned and also transgressed my covenant, which I commanded them, and have taken of the excommunicate things, and have stolen and hid them, and also put them unto their own stuff: And therefore the children of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They shall turn their backs before their enemies, because they be excommunicate. Neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the excommunicate from among you.
There is no man that calleth upon thy name, that standeth up to take hold by thee. Therefore hidest thou thy face from us and consumest us, because of our sins.
Error » Sins » Our deliverance from, through Christ
For first of all, I delivered unto you that which I received: how that Christ died for our sins, agreeing to the scriptures,
and from Jesus Christ which is a faithful witness, and first begotten of the dead: and Lord over the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
which gave himself for our sins, to deliver us from this present evil world, through the will of God our father,
which his own self bare our sins in his body on the tree, that we should be delivered from sin and should live in righteousness. By whose stripes ye were healed.
And he it is that obtaineth grace for our sins; and not for our sins only, but also for the sins of all the world.
Error » Sins » Of ignorance
But he that knew not, and yet did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whom much is given: of him shall be much required. And to whom men much commit, the more of him will they ask.
when before I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a tyrant. But I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly, through unbelief:
"Speak unto the children of Israel and say, 'When a soul sinneth through ignorance, and hath done any of those things which the LORD hath forbidden in his commandments to be done:
"When a soul sinneth and committeth any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD: though he wist it not, he hath yet offended and is in sin,
And now, brethren, I know well that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your heads.
Error » Definition of » Forgiven
But he was so merciful, that he forgave their misdeeds, and destroyed them not. Yea, many a time turned he his wrath away, and would not suffer his whole displeasure to arise.
And ye which were dead in sin through the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened with him and hath forgiven us all our trespasses
Then said David unto Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." And Nathan said again to David, "The LORD hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
Thou hast forgiven the offense of thy people, and covered all their sins. Selah.
When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the sick of the palsy, "Son, thy sins are forgiven thee."
Error » Sins » Of omission
Woe be to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye which tithe mint, anise, and cumin, and leave the weightier matters of the law undone: judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to have left the other undone.
The servant that knew his master's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
Therefore to him that knoweth how to do good, and doth it not: to him, it is sin.
Then shall he answer them, and say, '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 be to you Pharisees: for ye tithe the mint, and rue, and all manner herbs; and pass over judgment, and the love of God. These ought ye to have done, and yet not to have left the other undone.
Error » Definition of » Origin of
And the woman saw that it was a good tree to eat of, and lusty unto the eyes, and a pleasant tree for to make wise. And took of the fruit of it and ate, and gave unto her husband also with her, and he ate.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, breaking of wedlock, whoredom, theft, false witness-bearing, blasphemy.
Then when lust hath conceived, she bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death.
From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? Come they not here hence, even of your voluptuousness that raineth in your members?
Error » Definition of » Inexcusable
Therefore art thou inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou be that judgest. For in the same wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. For thou that judgest doest even the same self things.
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they should not have had sin: but now have they nothing to cloak their sin withal.
So that his invisible things, that is to say, his eternal power and godhead, are understood and seen by the works from the creation of the world. So that they are without excuse,
Error » Definition of » Contempt for others
Who so despiseth his neighbour, doth amiss; but blessed is he that hath pity of the poor.
Error » Definition of » Vain talk
Where much babbling is, there must needs be offense; he that refraineth his lips is wisest of all.
Error » Definition of » Foolish thoughts
The thought of the foolish is sin, and the scornful is an abomination unto men.
Error » Definition of » Unbelief
For he that maketh conscience, is damned if he eat: Because he doth it not of faith. For whatsoever is not of faith, that same is sin.
Error » Definition of » All unrighteousness
Error » Definition of » Transgression of the law
All that commit sin, committeth unrighteousness also, for sin is unrighteousness.
Error » Definition of » Neglect of opportunity
Therefore to him that knoweth how to do good, and doth it not: to him, it is sin.
Ignorance of God » Leads to » Error
Jesus answered and said unto them, "Ye are deceived, and understand not what the scripture meaneth, nor yet the power of God.