24 Bible Verses about Falling Away From God
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if they shall fall away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance. This is because they personally impale the Son of God again, and expose him to public shame.
Be careful, brothers and sisters, that none of you develop a wicked heart lacking faith and turning away (departing) from the living God.
Many will stumble and betray and hate one another.
The Spirit explicitly says that some will fall away from the faith (truth) in later times. Spirits and doctrines of demons will seduce them,
Do not let anyone deceive you about this in any way. That day will not come unless apostasy (a falling away from truth) takes place first, and the man of lawlessness (sin), the man of destruction, is revealed. (2 Timothy 4:3)
Everyone has turned away. Together they have become rotten to the core. No one, not even one person, does good things.
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born. They speak lies.
They were disloyal and treacherous like their ancestors. They were like arrows shot from a defective bow.
For forty years I was grieved with this generation. I said: It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.
He dies without instruction. He goes astray because of his foolishness.
The faithless in heart will be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from above.
They eat ashes because they are deceived. Their own misguided minds lead them astray. They cannot rescue themselves or ask themselves: Is what I hold in my right hand a false god?
Your own wickedness will correct you. Your apostasies (unfaithful ways) will punish you! You should know and see how evil and bitter it is for you when you abandon Jehovah your God! You do not respect (reverence) me, says the Sovereign Lord Jehovah of Hosts.
Return you backsliding children, and I will forgive you for being unfaithful. See, we have come to you because you are Jehovah our God.
That is why lions from the forest will kill them. Wolves from the desert will tear them to pieces, and leopards will prowl through their towns. If those people go out, they will be torn apart because their sins are numerous and time after time they have turned from God. Jehovah asked: Why should I forgive the sins of my people? They have abandoned me and have worshiped gods that are not real. I fed my people until they were full, but they committed adultery and spent their time with prostitutes.
Yet they did not obey or incline their ear. They walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart. They went backward and not forward.
Judah mourns and its gates collapse. The people of Judah are filled with bereavement as they sit on the ground. Their cry goes up from Jerusalem. Important people send their assistants out for water. They do not find any water at the cisterns. They return with their containers empty. They cover their heads, because they are ashamed and dishonored. There is no rain in the land and the ground is cracked. The farmers are disappointed. They cover their heads.read more.
Even deer in the fields give birth and abandon their young because there is no grass. Wild donkeys stand on the bare hills. They sniff the wind like jackals. Their eyesight fails because they have no green plants. Do something, Jehovah, for the sake of your name, even though our iniquities testify against us. We have been unfaithful (like apostates) and have sinned against you.
You left me, declares Jehovah. You turned your back on me. So I will stretch out my hand against you (use my power against you) and destroy you. I am tired of showing compassion to you.
Swords will flash in their cities, destroy the bars of their gates, and put an end to their plans. My people are determined to turn (apostatize) from me. Even if they call to the Most High, he will by no means exalt them.
Return, O Israel, to Jehovah your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
Also the men left the natural use of the woman and burned in their lust, one toward another; men with men working that which is obscene. They receive full recompense due for their error.
My righteous people will live by faith. If any of them turn back, I will not be pleased with them.
You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, avoid being carried away with the error of the wicked and falling from your own steadfastness.
