diff --git a/include/SQLiteCpp/Database.h b/include/SQLiteCpp/Database.h
index 71ebc5b..7a2c186 100644
--- a/include/SQLiteCpp/Database.h
+++ b/include/SQLiteCpp/Database.h
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ private:
     {
         if (SQLITE_OK != aRet)
         {
-            throw SQLite::Exception(sqlite3_errmsg(mpSQLite));
+            throw SQLite::Exception(sqlite3_errstr(aRet));
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/include/SQLiteCpp/Statement.h b/include/SQLiteCpp/Statement.h
index fd08137..363e98c 100644
--- a/include/SQLiteCpp/Statement.h
+++ b/include/SQLiteCpp/Statement.h
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ private:
     {
         if (SQLITE_OK != aRet)
         {
-            throw SQLite::Exception(sqlite3_errmsg(mStmtPtr));
+            throw SQLite::Exception(sqlite3_errstr(aRet));
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/Backup.cpp b/src/Backup.cpp
index 504042f..ba8815a 100644
--- a/src/Backup.cpp
+++ b/src/Backup.cpp
@@ -85,11 +85,7 @@ int Backup::executeStep(const int aNumPage /* = -1 */)
     if (SQLITE_OK != res && SQLITE_DONE != res &&
             SQLITE_BUSY != res && SQLITE_LOCKED != res)
     {
-        std::string strerr("Backup executeStep error");
-#if SQLITE_VERSION_NUMBER >= 3007015  // SQLite v3.7.15 is the first version with sqlite3_errstr() interface
-        strerr += "with error message ";
-        strerr += sqlite3_errstr(res);
-#endif
+        std::string strerr = sqlite3_errstr(res);
         throw SQLite::Exception(strerr);
     }
     return res;
diff --git a/src/Database.cpp b/src/Database.cpp
index b9440ac..2ce2183 100644
--- a/src/Database.cpp
+++ b/src/Database.cpp
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Database::Database(const char* apFilename,
     const int ret = sqlite3_open_v2(apFilename, &mpSQLite, aFlags, apVfs);
     if (SQLITE_OK != ret)
     {
-        std::string strerr = sqlite3_errmsg(mpSQLite);
+        std::string strerr = sqlite3_errstr(ret);
         sqlite3_close(mpSQLite); // close is required even in case of error on opening
         throw SQLite::Exception(strerr);
     }
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Database::Database(const std::string& aFilename,
     const int ret = sqlite3_open_v2(aFilename.c_str(), &mpSQLite, aFlags, aVfs.empty() ? NULL : aVfs.c_str());
     if (SQLITE_OK != ret)
     {
-        std::string strerr = sqlite3_errmsg(mpSQLite);
+        std::string strerr = sqlite3_errstr(ret);
         sqlite3_close(mpSQLite); // close is required even in case of error on opening
         throw SQLite::Exception(strerr);
     }
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Database::~Database() noexcept // nothrow
 /**
  * @brief Set a busy handler that sleeps for a specified amount of time when a table is locked.
  *
- *  This is usefull in multithreaded program to handle case where a table is locked for writting by a thread.
+ *  This is useful in multithreaded program to handle case where a table is locked for writting by a thread.
  * Any other thread cannot access the table and will receive a SQLITE_BUSY error:
  * setting a timeout will wait and retry up to the time specified before returning this SQLITE_BUSY error.
  *  Reading the value of timeout for current connection can be done with SQL query "PRAGMA busy_timeout;".
diff --git a/src/Statement.cpp b/src/Statement.cpp
index 86e5919..519daf5 100644
--- a/src/Statement.cpp
+++ b/src/Statement.cpp
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ bool Statement::executeStep()
         {
             mbOk = false;
             mbDone = false;
-            throw SQLite::Exception(sqlite3_errmsg(mStmtPtr));
+            throw SQLite::Exception(sqlite3_errstr(ret));
         }
     }
     else
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ int Statement::exec()
         {
             mbOk = false;
             mbDone = false;
-            throw SQLite::Exception(sqlite3_errmsg(mStmtPtr));
+            throw SQLite::Exception(sqlite3_errstr(ret));
         }
     }
     else
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ Statement::Ptr::Ptr(sqlite3* apSQLite, std::string& aQuery) :
     const int ret = sqlite3_prepare_v2(apSQLite, aQuery.c_str(), static_cast<int>(aQuery.size()), &mpStmt, NULL);
     if (SQLITE_OK != ret)
     {
-        throw SQLite::Exception(sqlite3_errmsg(mpSQLite));
+        throw SQLite::Exception(sqlite3_errstr(ret));
     }
     // Initialize the reference counter of the sqlite3_stmt :
     // used to share the mStmtPtr between Statement and Column objects;