76 Bible Verses about Straying

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Ephesians 6:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;

Isaiah 53:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

1 Peter 2:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Colossians 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Matthew 17:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

Proverbs 19:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Psalm 119:176 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

1 John 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

1 John 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

1 Peter 2:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”

James 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

James 1:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

James 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Hebrews 11:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.

Titus 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

1 Timothy 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Colossians 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Romans 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Acts 1:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” ...

John 16:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ ...

John 15:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

John 15:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 14:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?

John 10:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 15:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

Matthew 18:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?

Matthew 17:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 34:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek for them.

Ezekiel 34:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.

Isaiah 38:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness.

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Proverbs 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Deuteronomy 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today. The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, while I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord. For you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said: ...

Deuteronomy 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children—

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Genesis 4:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, “God has appointed for me another offspring instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”

Genesis 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.

Genesis 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.”