23 Bible Verses about Falling Away From God
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and who fell away, to restore again to repentance, crucifying to themselves the Son of God, and disgracing him publicly.
Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God.
And then many will be caused to stumble, and they will betray each other and will hate each other.
But the Spirit says expressly that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,
Let not any man deceive you in any way, because if not, the defection may come first, and he may be revealed--the man of sin, the son of destruction,
They are all gone aside. They are together become filthy. There is none who does good, no, not one.
The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Forty years long I was grieved with [that] generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways.
He shall die for lack of instruction. And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man from his own fruits.
He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou have forsaken LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, says the Lord, L
Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them; a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them; a leopard shall watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are m How can I pardon thee? Thy sons have forsaken me, and sworn by those who are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Judah mourns, and the gates thereof languish. They sit in black upon the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up. And their ranking men send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads, because of the ground which is cracked. Because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are put to shame; they cover their heads.read more.
Yea, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [it] because there is no grass. And the wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail because there is no herbage. Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O LORD. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against thee.
Thou have rejected me, says LORD. Thou have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against thee, and destroyed thee. I am weary with relenting.
And the sword shall fall upon their cities, and shall consume their bars, and devour [them], because of their own counsels. And my people are bent on backsliding from me. Though they call them to [him who is] on high, none at all will exalt [him].
And likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, burned in their lust toward each other, males with males producing shamelessness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their deviancy that was fitting
But the righteous man will live from faith, and if he should withdraw, my soul is not pleased with him.
Ye therefore, beloved, knowing in advance, keep watch, lest, having accommodated to the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own steadfastness.
