Malachi 2:8
You priests have turned away from the right path. Your teaching has led many to do wrong. You have corrupted the covenant I made with Levi (you).
Jeremiah 18:15
My people have forgotten me. They burn incense to worthless gods and they have stumbled from their ways. They stray from the ancient paths to walk in pathways and not on a highway.
1 Samuel 2:17
The sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah. For men despised the offering of Jehovah.
Nehemiah 13:29
Keep them in mind, O my God, because they have put shame on the priests' name and on the agreement of the priests and the Levites.
Ezekiel 44:10
But the Levites, who went far from me when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, will bear the punishment for their iniquity.
Malachi 2:5
My covenant was with him [Levi]. It was of life and peace. I gave them to him that he might reverence me. He respected me and stood in awe of my name.
Leviticus 21:15
He must not dishonor his children among his people because I, Jehovah, set him apart as holy.
1 Samuel 2:24
No, my sons. It is not a good report that I hear. You make Jehovah's people transgress.
1 Samuel 2:30
Jehovah, the God of Israel says: 'I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me all the days of your life.' Now Jehovah says: Far be it from me. I will honor those who honor me. I will not regard those who think little of me.
Psalm 18:21
I have kept the ways of Jehovah and I have not wickedly turned away from my God.
Psalm 119:102
I have not turned aside from your ordinances just as you have instructed me.
Isaiah 9:16
Those who led this people led them astray. And those who were led by them were left in confusion.
Isaiah 30:11
Get out of our way! Stop blocking our path! Get the Holy One of Israel out of our sight.'
Isaiah 59:13
We rebelled and denied Jehovah. We turned away from our God. We spoke about oppression and revolt. We conceived and uttered lies in our hearts.
Jeremiah 17:5
This is what Jehovah says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Jehovah.
Jeremiah 17:13
You will put to shame all that forsake you, O Jehovah, the hope of Israel. Those who turn away on earth will be written down, for they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living water.
Jeremiah 23:11-15
The prophets and priests are godless. Even in my Temple I have found them doing evil, declares Jehovah.
Daniel 9:5-6
We have sinned. We have dealt perversely. We have acted wickedly and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.
Malachi 2:9-10
I caused you to be despised and low before all the people. You are contemptible and do not keep my ways. You show partiality when applying the law.
Matthew 15:2-5
They questioned him: Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? They eat food with unwashed hands.
Luke 11:45-46
One of the lawyers said to him: Teacher, you also insult us by saying this.
Romans 2:19-24
And you have confidence that you are a leader of the blind, a light to those in darkness.
Romans 14:21
It is good neither to eat food, nor to drink wine, nor any thing that causes your brother to stumble or be offended and weakened.
Hebrews 3:12
Be careful, brothers and sisters, that none of you develop a wicked heart lacking faith and turning away (departing) from the living God.