What Does the Bible Say About Making Bad Choices?

Romans 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Revelation 17:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Luke 15:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable: “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? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ...

Hebrews 5:11-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Matthew 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

8 Bible Verses about Making Bad Choices

Romans 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Revelation 17:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 15:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 5:11-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Romans 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Revelation 17:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 15:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 5:11-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes