16 Bible Verses about Apostasy, Personal Warnings

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy; for I espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a pure virgin to Christ; but I fear lest, by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and purity which is toward Christ.

And He said to another, "Follow Me." But he said, "Lord, permit me, going away, first to bury my father." And He said, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but, going, publish abroad the Kingdom of God." And another said, "I will follow Thee, Lord; but first permit me to bid adieu to those within my house."read more.
And Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to a plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."

O foolish Galatians! Who bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified? This only do I wish to learn of you: Did ye receive the Spirit by works of law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now being made perfect in the flesh?

But then, indeed, when ye knew not God, ye served those which by nature are no gods; but, after having known God, or rather having been known by God, how are ye turning back again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which ye desire to be in bondage again? Ye are scrupulously observing days, and months, and seasons, and years!

But whosoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a large millstone be hanged about his neck, and he be sunk in the depth of the sea.

Ye were running well; who hindered you, that ye should not obey the truth, The persuasion is not from Him Who calleth you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump.read more.
I have confidence toward you in the Lord, that ye will regard nothing else; but he who is troubling you shall bear his sentence, whosoever he may be.

Wherefore, let him who thinks he is standing take heed, lest he fall. A temptation has not taken you, except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Take heed, brethren, lest at any time there shall be in anyone of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; but exhort one another daily, so long as it is called "To-day," lest anyone of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin; for we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

And then will many be caused to stumble, and will deliver up one another, and hate one another; and many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray; and, because lawlessness abounds, the love of many will grow cold.read more.
But he that endures to the end, the same shall be saved.

for there will arise false Christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, in order to lead astray, if possible, the elect. But take heed; I have foretold you all things.

And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in evil works, yet now did He reconcile in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and without blemish, and irreproachable, before Him; if, at least, ye continue in the faith, founded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Gospel, which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under the heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

O Timothy, guard the deposit; turning away from the profane babblings, and oppositions of that which is falsely called knowledge; which some professing erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you.

Cast not away, therefore, your boldness, which, indeed, has great recompense. For ye have need of patience, that, after having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise. "For yet a little while, how short! how short! The Coming One will come, and will not tarry."read more.
"But My righteous one shall live by faith, and, if he draw back, My soul has no pleasure in him." But we are not of those who draw back to destruction; but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

Therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us??aving thrown off every encumbrance and the easily besetting sin??et us run with patience the race lying before us; looking away to the Author and Perfecter of our faith, Jesus; Who, in consideration of the joy lying before Him, endured the cross, despising shame, and hath taken a seat at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him Who hath endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye become weary, fainting in your souls.read more.
Not yet did ye resist unto blood, contending against sin; and ye have forgotten the exhortation which, indeed, reasons with you as with sons: "My son, do not lightly regard the chastening of the Lord; neither faint, when reproved by Him; for whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He acknowledgeth." For chastening endure ye: God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chastens not? But, if ye are without chastisement, of which all have become partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Ye, therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, be on your guard, lest, being carried away with error of the wicked, ye fall from your own steadfastness. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever.

And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and authority was given him to work forty-two months. And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme His name, and His Tabernacle, even those dwelling in Heaven. And it was given him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them; and there was given him authority over every tribe, and people, and tongue, and nation.read more.
And all who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the founding of a world. If anyone has an ear, let him hear. If anyone is for captivity, into captivity he goes; if anyone shall kill with a sword, with a sword he must be killed. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.