7 Bible Verses about Apostasy, Cause

O Simon, Simon! Satan has obtained permission to sift all of you like wheat,

I know that after I am gone savage wolves will get in among you and will not spare the flock,

For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome instruction, but will overwhelm themselves with teachers to suit their whims and tickle their fancies,

So there must still be a promised Sabbath of Rest for God's people. For all who are admitted to God's Rest rest after their work, just as God did after his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to be admitted to that Rest, so that none of us may fail through such disobedience as theirs.

for Demas has deserted me for love of the present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

When they heard that, they were enraged and ground their teeth at him.

As they could not agree among themselves, they started to leave, when Paul added one last word. "The holy Spirit put it finely," he said, "when it said to your forefathers through the prophet Isaiah, " 'Go to this Nation and say to them, "You will listen, and listen, and never understand, And you will look, and look, and never see! For this nation's mind has grown dull, And they hear faintly with their ears, And they have shut their eyes, So as never to see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their minds, and turn back, And let me cure them!" '