24 Bible Verses about Falling Away From God
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and having fallen away, again to renew them to reformation, having crucified again to themselves the Son of God, and exposed to public shame.
See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,
and then shall many be stumbled, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.
And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,
let not any one deceive you in any manner, because -- if the falling away may not come first, and the man of sin be revealed -- the son of the destruction,
The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.
The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,
Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, 'A people erring in heart -- they! And they have not known My ways:'
He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!
Feeding on ashes, the heart is deceived, It hath turned him aside, And he delivereth not his soul, nor saith: 'Is there not a lie in my right hand?'
Instruct thee doth thy wickedness, And thy backslidings reprove thee, Know and see that an evil and a bitter thing Is thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, And My fear not being on thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.
Turn back, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease. -- Behold us, we have come to Thee, For Thou art Jehovah our God.
Therefore smitten them hath a lion out of the forest, A wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, A leopard is watching over their cities, Every one who is going out of them is torn, For many have been their transgressions, Mighty have been their backslidings. For this I am not propitious to thee, Thy sons have forsaken Me, And are satisfied by that which is not god, I satisfy them, and they commit adultery, And at the house of a harlot They gather themselves together.
And they have not hearkened, nor inclined their ear, And they walk in the counsels, In the stubbornness, of their evil heart, And are for backward, and not for forward.
Mourned hath Judah, and her gates have languished, They have mourned to the earth, And the cry of Jerusalem hath gone up. And their honourable ones have sent their little ones to the water, They have come unto ditches, They have not found water, They have turned back -- their vessels empty! They have been ashamed, And have blushed and covered their head. Because the ground hath been broken, For there hath been no rain in the land, Ashamed have been husbandmen, They have covered their head.read more.
For even the hind in the field hath brought forth -- to forsake it! For there hath been no grass. And wild asses have stood on high places, They have swallowed up wind like dragons, Consumed have been their eyes, for there is no herb. Surely our iniquities have testified against us, O Jehovah, work for Thy name's sake, For many have been our backslidings, Against Thee we have sinned.
Thou -- thou hast left Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Backward thou goest, And I stretch out My hand against thee, And I destroy thee, I have been weary of repenting,
Grievous hath been the sword in his cities, And it hath ended his bars, and consumed -- from their own counsels. And My people are hanging in suspense, about My returning, And unto the Most High they do call, Together they exalt not.
Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.
and in like manner also the males having left the natural use of the female, did burn in their longing toward one another; males with males working shame, and the recompense of their error that was fit, in themselves receiving.
and 'the righteous by faith shall live,' and 'if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,'
Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness,
