16 Bible Verses about Apostasy, Personal Warnings

for I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear lest, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which pertains to Christ.

And he said to another: Follow me. But he replied: Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father. Jesus said: Let the dead bury their own dead; but do you go and publish abroad the kingdom of God. And another said: I will follow thee, Lord; but first permit me to take leave of those at home.read more.
Jesus said to him: No one that puts his hand to the plow, and looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

Thoughtless Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been plainly set forth crucified? This only I wish to learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so thoughtless? After having begun in Spirit, do you make an end in flesh?

But, then, because you knew not God, you were enslaved to those who, by nature, are not gods: now, however, after having known God, rather indeed having been known by God, how is it that you are turning back to the weak and beggarly rudiments, to which you desire again to be in bondage, as at first? You observe days and months and times and years. -

but whoever ensnares one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hung about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

You were running well; who kept you back from obedience to the truth? This readiness to be persuaded is not from him that calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole mass.read more.
I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will cultivate no other disposition: but he that troubles you, who ever he may be, shall bear his condemnation.

"Wherefore, let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he foil. No trial has come upon you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tried more than you are able to bear; but he will, with the trial, make a way to escape, so that you be able to bear up under it.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in apostatizing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day, lest any of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we are partakers of the Christ, if we hold our begun confidence firm to the end;

And then will many be ensnared, and they will deliver one another up, and hate one another; and many false prophets will arise, and deceive many; and because iniquity abounds, the love of many will grow cold.read more.
But he that endures to the end, shall be saved.

For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and will show signs and wonders, in order to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. But do you take heed: behold, I have told you all things beforehand.

And you, who were formerly alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled by means of death in his fleshly body, that he may present you holy, and without spot, and blameless in his sight; if you continue in the faith, founded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.

Timothy, keep that which is committed to your charge, avoiding those profane and empty babblings, and disputations about knowledge falsely so called; by making a profession of this knowledge, some have erred as it respects the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

Cast not away, therefore, your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise. For yet a very, very little while, and He that comes will come, and will not delay.read more.
But the just by faith shall live; and if he draw back, my soul will have no pleasure in him. But we are not of those who draw back to perdition; but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

Wherefore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that lies before us, looking to Jesus the author and finisher of the faith, who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such opposition of sinners against himself, lest you become weary and despondent in your minds.read more.
You have not yet resisted to blood, in your contest with sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as to sons: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him. For, whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son that he receives. If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons: for what son is there whose father chastens him not? But if you are without chastisement, of which all are par takers, then are you bastards, and not sons.

Do you, therefore, beloved, since you know these things be forehand, beware, lest, being led away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness. But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

And there was given him a mouth that spoke great things and impious words; and authority was given to him to continue forty-two months. And he opened his mouth in impious speeches against God, to utter impious words against his name, and his tabernacle, and against those who dwell in heaven. And it was given him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and authority was given him over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.read more.
And all that dwell upon the earth will worship him, those whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world. If any one has an ear, let him hear. If any one leads into captivity, he shall go into captivity. If any kills with the sword, he must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and faithfulness of the saints.