11 Bible Verses about Fleeing From God

The nations run away when they hear a loud noise; the nations scatter when you spring into action!

And when the ark traveled, Moses would say, "Rise up, O Lord! May your enemies be scattered, and may those who hate you flee before you!"

Instead, Jonah immediately headed off to Tarshish to escape from the commission of the Lord. He traveled to Joppa and found a merchant ship heading to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard it to go with them to Tarshish far away from the Lord.

Hearing this, the men became even more afraid and said to him, "What have you done?" (The men said this because they knew that he was trying to escape from the Lord, because he had previously told them.)

Where can I go to escape your spirit? Where can I flee to escape your presence?

But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

So John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, "You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off --

The sea looked and fled; the Jordan River turned back.

Why do you flee, O sea? Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?

Then I saw a large white throne and the one who was seated on it; the earth and the heaven fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.