Zephaniah 1:6
and those who turned back from {following} Yahweh, and who did not seek Yahweh, and did not inquire of him."
Isaiah 1:4
Ah, sinful nation, a people heavy [with] iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly. They have forsaken Yahweh; they have despised the holy one of Israel. They are estranged [and gone] backward.
Jeremiah 2:13
"For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, [the] source of living water, to hew out for themselves cisterns, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 2:17
Did you not do this to yourself, [by] forsaking Yahweh, your God, at the time of your leading in the way?
Jeremiah 15:6
You have forsaken me," {declares} Yahweh. "You go backward, so I have stretched my hand against you, and I have destroyed you. I am tired of becoming remorseful.
Hosea 7:7
All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen; there is none who calls to me amongst them.
1 Samuel 15:11
"I regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not kept my word." {Samuel became angry}, and he cried out to Yahweh all night.
Psalm 10:4
{With bald-faced pride} [the] wicked will not seek [God]. There is no God in any of his thoughts.
Psalm 14:2-3
Yahweh looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who cares about God.
Psalm 36:3
The words of his mouth [are] wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to have insight [and] to do good.
Psalm 125:5
But regarding those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the evildoers. Peace [be] upon Israel.
Isaiah 9:13
And the people did not turn to the one who struck it, and they did not seek Yahweh of hosts.
Isaiah 43:22
But you did not call me, Jacob; for you have become weary of me, Israel.
Jeremiah 3:10
Yet even in all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, {but only} in pretense," {declares} Yahweh.
Ezekiel 3:20
And {when the righteous turns from his righteousness} and does injustice, and I place a stumbling block {before him}, he will die, for you did not warn him. Because of his sin he will die, and his righteousness that he did will not be remembered, and his blood I shall seek from your hand.
Hosea 4:15-16
Even though you, Israel, [are] playing the whore, do not let Judah become guilty; do not enter Gilgal, or go up [to] Beth-aven; and do not swear, "{As Yahweh lives}!"
Hosea 11:7
My people are bent on backsliding from me. To the Most High they call, he does not raise them at all.
Romans 3:11
[there] is no one who understands; [there] is no one who seeks God.
Hebrews 2:3
how will we escape [if we] neglect so great a salvation which had [its] beginning [when it] was spoken through the Lord [and] was confirmed to us by those who heard,
Hebrews 10:38-39
But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul is not well pleased with him."
2 Peter 2:18-22
{For by speaking high-sounding but empty words}, they entice with desires of the flesh [and] with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error,