37 Bible Verses about Warnings Against Apostasy

For impossible for them once enlightened, and having tasted of the heavenly gift, and having partaken of the Holy Spirit, And tasted of the good word of God, and powers of the life about to be, And having fallen, again to renew to repentance; crucifying to themselves the Son of God, and exposing to ignominy.read more.
For the earth drinking the rain coming often upon it, and bringing forth the vegetable fitting well to them by whom it is cultivated, receives commendation from God: And producing thorns and briers is rejected, after having been tried, and near cursing; whose end for destruction.

And he having sown upon rocky places, this is he hearing the word, and quickly with joy receiving it; And has no root in himself, but is for a time; and there being pressure or expulsion for the word, straightly is he offended.

And these are likewise they sown upon stony places; who, when they hear, quickly with joy receive it; And have no root in themselves, but are temporary; then pressure having been or expulsion for the word, quickly are they scandalized.

And they upon the rock, who, when they hear, with joy receive the word; and they have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of trial fly away.

Then one of the twelve having gone forth, he being called Judas Iscariot, to the chief priests, Said, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him to you? and they placed to him thirty silver coins. And from then he sought opportunity, that he might deliver him.

And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them. And having heard, they rejoiced, and promised to give him silver. And he sought how he might opportunely deliver him up.

And then shall many be offended, and they shall deliver up one another, and they shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall be raised up, and deceive many. And because anxiety shall increase, the love of many shall be cooled.

For we sinning voluntarily after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there is left no more a sacrifice for sins, But a certain terrible expectation of judgment and jealousy of fire, being about to devour the adversaries. Any one having rejected Moses' law, without compassion dies by two or three witnesses:read more.
Of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be deemed worthy. having trodden down the Son of God, and deemed the blood of the covenant common, in which he was consecrated, and having outraged the Spirit of grace? For we know him having said, Vengeance to me, I will give back, says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge his people. Terrible to fall into the hands of the living God.

I wonder that so quickly are ye transferred from him having called you by the grace of Christ to another good news:

And Satan came into Judas called Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. And having departed, he conversed with the chief priests and the generals, how he might deliver him to them. And they rejoiced, and agreed to give him silver.read more.
And he promised, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them apart from the crowd.

But whoever should deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father, him in the heavens.

Then will ye begin to say, We ate and drank before thee, and thou didst teach in our streets. And he will say, I say to you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workmen of iniquity.

Let none deceive you in any manner: for, except an apostasy come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

For whoever should be ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; also the Son of man shall be ashamed of him, when he should come in the glory of the Father with the holy messengers.

For the time will be when they will not hear sound doctrine; but according to their own eager desires they will heap up to themselves teachers, feeling itchings for a report; And truly from the truth will they turn away the hearing, and be turned aside to fictions.

And he having denied me before men, shall he denied before the messengers of God.

And the Spirit says expressly, that in later times some shall be removed from the faith, holding to deceitful spirits, and doctrines of evil spirits;

If any remain not in me, he was cast forth as the branch, and was dried up; and they gather them together, and cast into the fire, and they are burned.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they had remained with us, but, that they might be manifested, that they are not all of us.

If we endure, we shall also reign together: if we deny, he will also deny us:

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in removing away from the living God.

You therefore, dearly beloved, knowing beforehand, watch, lest, led away by the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own stability.

When there shall arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he gave to thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come which he spake to thee, saying, We will go after other gods which we know not, and we will serve them, Thou shalt not hear to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah thy God tries you to know whether ye are loving Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.read more.
Ye shall go after Jehovah your God, and ye shall fear him, and his commands shall ye watch, and to his voice shall ye hear, and ye shall serve him, and to him shall ye cleave. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall die, for he spake a turning away from Jehovah your God, having brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed thee from the house of servants, to thrust thee away from the way which Jehovah thy God commanded to go in it: and put thou away the evil from the midst of thee. When thy brother, the son of thy mother, shall entice thee, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend who is as thy soul, in secret, saying, We will go and serve other gods which thou knewest not, thou, and thy fathers; From the gods of the people which are round about you, coming near to thee, or being far off from thee, from the end of the earth even to the end of the earth; Thou shalt not be willing to him, and thou shalt not hear to him, and thine eye shall not have compassion upon him, and thou shalt not pity, and thou shalt not cover over him: But killing, thou shalt kill him; thy hand shall be upon him for the first to put him to death, and the hand of all the people at last. And stone him with stones and he died, for he sought to thrust thee away from Jehovah thy God, having brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of servants. And all Israel shall hear, and shall fear, and they shall not add to do this evil in the midst of thee.

And my mercy I will not remove from him as I removed from Saul whom I removed from thy face.

And in his being strong his heart was lifted up even to destruction: for he will transgress against Jehovah his God, and come in to the temple of Jehovah to burn incense upon the altar of incense. And Azariah the priest will go in after him, and with him eighty priests to Jehovah, sons of strength. And they will stand against Uzziah the king, and say to him, Not to thee, Uzziah, to burn incense to Jehovah, but to the priests, the sons of Aaron, being consecrated to burn incense: go forth from the holy place, for thou didst trespass; and not to thee for honor from Jehovah God.read more.
And Uzziah will he angry, and in his hand a censer to burn incense: and in his being angry with the priests, the leprosy rose in his forehead before the priests in the house of Jehovah, from above to the altar of incense. And Azariah the head priest will turn to him, and all the priests, and behold, he was smitten in his forehead, and they will drive him out from thence; and he also hastened to go forth, for Jehovah struck him. And Uzziah the king will be smitten even to the day of his death; and he dwelt in a house of infirmity, leprous; for he was cut off from the house of Jehovah: and Jotham his son over the king's house, judging the people of the land.

From this many of his disciples went away back, and walked no more with him.

And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, And separated from the price, his wife also knowing; and having brought a certain part, laid at the feet of the sent. And Peter said, Ananias, wherefore filled Satan thy heart, for thee to belie the Holy Spirit, and separate from the price of the farmread more.
Remaining, did it not remain to thee? and sold, it was in thy power: for what hast thou put this thing in thy heart? thou hast not lied to men, but to God. And Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, he expired: and great fear was upon all them hearing these things. And the younger having risen up, drew him together, and having carried out, interred. And there was an interval of about three hours, and his wife not knowing that done, came in. And Peter answered to her, Tell me, if for so much ye sold the farm? And she said, Yes, for so much. And Peter said to her, For what was it agreed by you to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them having interred thy husband at the door, and they shall carry thee out. And she fell immediately at his feet, and expired: and the young men having come in, found her dead, and having carried out, interred near her husband. And great fear was upon the whole church, and upon all having heard these things.

Having faith, and a good consciousness; which some having rejected concerning faith suffered shipwreck: Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, that they should not be taught to blaspheme.

They confess to know God; and in works they deny, being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good work not tried.

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved the time now, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

And also were there false prophets among the people, as also among you shall be false teachers, who shall privately bring in doctrines of perdition, and denying the master having purchased them, having brought upon themselves swift destruction. (And many shall follow their licentiousness; by whom the way of truth shall be defamed.) And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.

And chiefly them going after the flesh in eager desire of defilement, and despising dominion. Self-sufficient, rash men, they tremble not, defaming glories. Where angels, being greater in strength and power, bring not defaming judgment against them to the Lord. But these, as natural irrational living creatures, having been for catching and destroying, defaming in what things they are ignorant of; and shall be destroyed in their corruption;read more.
Receiving the reward of injustice, deeming luxurious indulgence pleasure in the day. Spots and blemishes, rioting in their deceits, feasting together with you Having eyes full of an adulteress, not ceasing from sin; decoying unstable souls: having a heart exercised with covetousness; children of a curse: Having forsaken the straight way, they were led astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the reward of injustice;

For if having escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and again entangling with these, they be conquered, the last things have been to them worse than the first. For it was better for them not to have known the way of justice, than, having known, to turn back from the holy command delivererd to them. And that of the true proverb has happened to them, The dog having turned back to his own vomit; and the sow having been washed to the rolling of the mire.

For certain men entered in by stealth, long ago written of beforehand for judgment, irreligious, having changed the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

And likewise indeed these dreaming truly defile the flesh, and despise dominion, and defame glories. But Michael the archangel, when fighting with the accuser, discussed concerning the body of Moses, dared not to bring the judgment of defamation, but said, May the Lord censure thee. And these truly what things they know not they defame: and what things naturally, as irrational animals, they know, in these they corrupt themselves.read more.
Woe to them for they went in the way of Cain, and were poured out in the error of Balaam for a reward, and they were destroyed in the controversy of Core. These are spots in your loves, feasting together fearlessly, taking care of themselves: clouds wanting water, carried about by winds; decayed trees, unfruitful, twice dead, uprooted; Fierce waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom the obseurity of darkness has been kept forever. And also of these prophesied Enoch, the seventh from Adam, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, To do judgment to all, and to convince all their irreligious of all their works of irreligion which they have impiously acted, and of all the hard things which the sinful irreligious spake against him. These are murmurers, discontented, going according to their eager desires; and their mouth speaks exceeding bulky things, admiring faces on account of advantage.

But I have a few things against thee, for thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, calling herself a prophetess, to teach and to lead my servants astray to commit fornication, and to eat things offered to idols. And I gave her time that she might repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them committing adultery with her into great pressure, except they repent of their works.

I lamented that I made Saul for king, for he turned back from after me, and my words he set not up. And it will kindle to Samuel, and he will cry to Jehovah all the night