7 Bible Verses about Apostasy, Cause

Simon! Simon! listen. Satan demanded leave to sift you all like wheat,

I know that, after my departure, merciless wolves will get in among you, who will not spare the flock;

For a time will come when people will not tolerate sound teaching. They will follow their own wishes, and, in their itching for novelty, procure themselves a crowd of teachers.

There is, then, a Sabbath-Rest still awaiting God's People. For he who enters upon God's Rest does himself rest after his work, just as God did. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter upon that Rest, so that none of us fall through such disbelief as that of which we have had an example.

for Demas, in his love for the world, has deserted me. He has gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

As they listened to this, the Council grew frantic with rage, and gnashed their teeth at Stephen.

So, as they disagreed among themselves, they began to disperse, Paul adding only--"True, indeed, was the declaration made by the Holy Spirit, through the Prophet Isaiah to your ancestors-- 'Go to this nation and say--"You will hear with your ears without ever understanding, and, though you have eyes, you will see without ever perceiving." For the mind of this nation has grown dense, and their ears are dull of hearing, their eyes also have they closed; lest some day they should see with their eyes, and with their ears they should hear, and in their mind they should understand, and should turn--and I should heal them.'