24 Bible Verses about Falling Away From God

and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,

Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.

The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.

For forty years I loathed that generation and said, "They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways."

You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from your commandments.

He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray.

The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.

He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, "Is there not a lie in my right hand?"

Your evil will chastise you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the LORD your God; the fear of me is not in you, declares the Lord GOD of hosts.

"Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to you, for you are the LORD our God.

Therefore a lion from the forest shall strike them down; a wolf from the desert shall devastate them. A leopard is watching their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great. "How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of whores.

But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

"Judah mourns, and her gates languish; her people lament on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up. Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns; they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confounded and cover their heads. Because of the ground that is dismayed, since there is no rain on the land, the farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.read more.
Even the doe in the field forsakes her newborn fawn because there is no grass. The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no vegetation. "Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O LORD, for your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

You have rejected me, declares the LORD; you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you-- I am weary of relenting.

The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them because of their own counsels. My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all.

Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.