24 Bible Verses about Falling Away From God
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and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves as they do the Son of God, and making a show of him.
See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in turning away from the living God.
And then will many be offended, and will deliver one another up, and hate one another;
But the Spirit speaks expressly, that in latter times some shall apostatise from the faith, giving their mind to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons
Let not any one deceive you in any manner, because it will not be unless the apostasy have first come, and the man of sin have been revealed, the son of perdition;
They have all gone aside, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one.
And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.
Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways;
He shall die for want of discipline; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man from what is in himself.
He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
Thine own wickedness chastiseth thee, and thy backslidings reprove thee: know then and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
Return, backsliding children; I will heal your backslidings. ... Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art Jehovah our God.
Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall waste them; the leopard lurketh against their cities, every one that goeth out thence is torn in pieces: for their transgressions are multiplied, their backslidings are increased. Wherefore should I pardon thee? Thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them that are not God. I have satiated them, and they have committed adultery, and they troop to the harlots' house.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.
Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem goeth up. And their nobles send their little ones for water: they come to the pits, they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed, they are confounded, and have covered their heads. Because the ground is chapt, for there hath been no rain on the earth, the ploughmen are ashamed, they cover their heads.read more.
For the hind also calveth in the field, and forsaketh its young, because there is no grass. And the wild asses stand on the heights, they snuff up the wind like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage. Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou act for thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many we have sinned against thee.
Thou hast cast me off, saith Jehovah, thou art gone backward; and I have stretched out my hand against thee, and will destroy thee: I am become weary of repenting.
and the sword shall turn about in his cities, and shall consume his bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels. Yea, my people are bent upon backsliding from me: though they call them to the Most High, none at all exalteth him.
O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.
But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him.
Ye therefore, beloved, knowing these things before, take care lest, being led away along with the error of the wicked, ye should fall from your own stedfastness:
