7 Bible Verses about Apostasy, Cause

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

I know that after my departing grievous wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine. Having their ears tickled, they will accumulate teachers who follow after their own lusts.

There remains then a Sabbath rest for the people of God. He who enters into his rest also rests from his own works, just as God did from his. Let us do our utmost to enter into that rest. Let no one fall into the same pattern of disobedience by not obeying the word.

For Demas forsook me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart. They gnashed their teeth at him.

So they left, disagreeing among themselves, after Paul had said this one thing: How well the Holy Spirit spoke through the prophet Isaiah to your ancestors! He said, Go and say to this people, 'You will listen and listen, but not understand. You will look and look, but not see. These people have closed their mind and are hard of hearing. They have shut their eyes so that their eyes never see. Their ears never hear. Their minds never understand. They never turn to me for healing.'