Jeremiah 8:5
Why has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a never-ending backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.
Jeremiah 9:6
Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 5:3
O Jehovah, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; You have destroyed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to return.
Proverbs 4:13
Take fast hold of instruction; do not let go; keep her; for she is your life.
Isaiah 1:20
but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.
Isaiah 30:10
who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy falsehood;
Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside, so that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
Jeremiah 2:32
Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number.
Jeremiah 3:11-14
And Jehovah said to me, The backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
Jeremiah 5:27
Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and grown rich.
Jeremiah 7:24-26
But they did not listen, nor bow their ear, but walked in their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.
Hosea 4:16
For Israel slides back like a backsliding heifer. Now Jehovah will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
Hosea 11:7
And My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt Him.
Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to listen, and gave a stubborn shoulder, and made heavy their ears from hearing.
John 5:40
and you will not come to Me that you might have life.
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Prove all things, hold fast to the good.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
Hebrews 12:25
See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape, those who refused him that spoke on earth, much more we shall not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from Heaven,
Revelation 2:25
But that which you have, hold fast until I come.