7 Bible Verses about Apostasy, Cause

Then said Jesus, Simon, Simon, satan has demanded to shake you, and my disciples, like wheat in a sieve.

for I know when I am gone, you will be oppress'd by wolves, that will not spare the flock.

for the time will come, when they will not endure sound doctrine, but get teachers of their own corrupt taste, to sooth their ears that itch for flattery:

which shows that the people of God have a sabbath still to come. then he that enters into divine rest, will indeed rest from his works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any of us by imitating their incredulity, should fall short thereof like them.

for Damas, out of love to this world has abandon'd me, and is gone to Thessalonica: Crescens, to Galatia: and Titus, to Dalmatia.

When they heard these things, they were transported with rage, and gnashed their teeth against him.

so not being able to agree, they retir'd, upon Paul's having told them, that the holy spirit had very justly said to our fathers by the prophet Esaias, "go to this people and say, hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive. for the heart of this people is become gross, their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I should heal them."