Astray

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

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

• Overseer
• Shepherd

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

• Games
• Figurative
• Race

Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

• Heart

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

• Angel
• Angel
• Ark

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. read more All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. show less

The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

• DAVID

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

• Lying
• Character

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

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