Ruth 1:15
Naomi said to her: Ruth, your sister-in-law went back to her people and her gods. Go back home with her.
Judges 11:24
Are you going to try to take it back? You can keep whatever your god Chemosh has given you. But we are going to keep everything Jehovah, our God, has taken for us.
Joshua 24:15
If you are not willing to serve him, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living. As for my family and me, we will serve Jehovah.'
2 Samuel 15:19-20
The king asked Ittai from Gath: Why should you go with us? Go back, and stay with King Absalom. You are a foreigner, an exile from your homeland.
2 Kings 2:2
and on the way Elijah said to Elisha: Stay here for Jehovah has ordered me to go to Bethel. But Elisha answered: I swear by my loyalty to the living God Jehovah and to you that I will not leave you. So they went on to Bethel.
Zephaniah 1:6
The same for those who have turned back from following Jehovah, and those who have not sought Jehovah or inquired of Him.
Joshua 24:19
Joshua said to the people: You may not be able to serve Jehovah. He is a holy God and will not forgive your sins. He will tolerate no rivals,
Psalm 36:3
The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit and he ceased to be wise and do good.
Psalm 125:5
Jehovah will lead those who turn away from their crooked ways with the workers of iniquity. Israel will have peace.
Matthew 13:20-21
Anyone sown among the rocky places hears the word and immediately with joy receives it.
Luke 14:26-33
You who come to me may not be my disciple unless you love me more than you love your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters and yourself.
Luke 24:28
They approached the village where they were going and he appeared to be going further.
Hebrews 10:38
My righteous people will live by faith. If any of them turn back, I will not be pleased with them.
1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they were not of us. If they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they went out that it made it plain that they all are not of us.