7 Bible Verses about Apostasy, Cause

"Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat.

I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires,

So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same example of disobedience.

for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed their teeth at him.

When they disagreed among themselves, they began to leave, after Paul had made one final statement: "The Holy Spirit spoke the truth to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet: saying, 'Go to this people and say, "you will be ever hearing, but will never understand; and you will be ever seeing, but will never perceive. For this people's heart has become dull, and with their ears they scarcely hear, and their eyes they have closed; otherwise they might see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them."'