Quotes about Straying
Now if you stray unintentionally and do not obey all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses—
- Numbers 15:22
And the cows headed straight up the road toward Beth-shemesh, staying on that one highway and lowing as they went, never straying to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed behind them to the border of Beth-shemesh.
- 1 Samuel 6:12
You rebuke the arrogant—the cursed who stray from Your commandments.
- Psalm 119:21
Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.
- Proverbs 27:8
We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
- Isaiah 53:6
Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
- Isaiah 63:17
Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.
- Hosea 7:13
Some have strayed from these ways and turned aside to empty talk.
- 1 Timothy 1:6
For some have already turned aside to follow Satan.
- 1 Timothy 5:15
They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
- 2 Peter 2:15
In times past when the nation strayed, the leaders would guide the people back to God, but these leaders pushed the people away with their persistent abuse of position and perversion of power.
- John Bevere
Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.
- John Milton