22 Bible Verses about apostasy

Then you, beloved, foreknowing watch, lest, having been led away by the delusion of the ungodly, you may fall from your own stedfastness:

having faith and a good conscience; which some having cast away have made shipwreck concerning the faith;

But the Spirit says positively, that in the last times certain ones will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and to the teachings of demons,

and they will indeed turn their hearing from the truth, and be turned unto fables.

See, brethren, lest at some time there shall be in some one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in turning away from the living God:

Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, going to the chief priests, said, What do you wish to give me, and I will deliver Him to you? And they offered him thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he was seeking opportunity that he might betray Him.

Then Judas, the one having betrayed Him, seeing that He was condemned, being seized with remorse, returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I sinned betraying the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? See thou to it. And throwing down the money in the temple, he departed; and having gone away hung himself.

And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might betray Him to them. And they, hearing, rejoiced, and promised to give him money. And he was seeking how he might betray Him opportunely.

And Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. And having gone away, he spoke with the chief priests and the magistrates, how he might betray Him to them. And they rejoiced, and promised to give him money. read more.
And he promised them, and was seeking an opportunity to deliver Him unto them in the absence of the multitude.

And He still speaking, behold, a multitude and the one called Judas, one of the twelve, was coming before them; and he drew near to Jesus to kiss Him. And Jesus said to him, Judas, do you betray the Son of man with a kiss?

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as is the custom to some; but exhorting: and this the more, as you see the days drawing nigh. For we sinning willingly after we have received the perfect knowledge of the truth, there is left no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful anticipation of judgment and violence of fire, about to devour the adversaries. read more.
The one having rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy before two or three witnesses: of how much more terrible punishment, do you think, the one having trodden under foot the Son of God, and counted the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, common, and insulted the Spirit of grace; be counted worthy! For we know him who said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will repay; and again, The Lord will judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

But we are not of the drawing back unto perdition; but of faith unto the salvation of the soul.

These are fountains without water, and mists driven away by the storm, for which the blackness of darkness has been reserved.

For if having escaped the pollutions of the world through the perfect knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and having again become entangled in these things, they are overcome, the last state has to them become worse than the first. For it was better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment which has been delivered unto them. It has happened unto them according to the old proverb, The dog having returned to his own vomit; and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.

And because iniquity doth abound, the divine love of many will grow cold.

Let no one deceive you in any way: because unless there may first be an apostasy and the man of lawlessness may be revealed, the son of perdition,

But the Spirit says positively, that in the last times certain ones will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and to the teachings of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having been cauterized as to their own conscience, forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the faithful and to those perfectly knowing the truth.

And those on the stones are they who, when they may hear, receive the word with joy; and they have no root in them, who believe for a time, and in time of temptation they fall away.

Then they will deliver you into tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations on account of my name, and then many will be offended; and they will betray one another, and hate one another.

Then you, beloved, foreknowing watch, lest, having been led away by the delusion of the ungodly, you may fall from your own stedfastness:

See, brethren, lest at some time there shall be in some one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in turning away from the living God:

See, brethren, lest at some time there shall be in some one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in turning away from the living God:

having faith and a good conscience; which some having cast away have made shipwreck concerning the faith; of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

You know this, that all who are in Asia, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes have turned away from me.

Moreover from this many of His disciples went back, and walked with Him no more.

For Demas has left me, having loved the present age, and is gone into Thessalonica; Crescents into Galatia, Titus into Dalmatia.

For the love of money is a root of all evils: which some seeking after have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.