24 Bible Verses about Falling Away From God
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and have backslidden, be renewed again by repentance, crucifying again for themselves the Son of God and putting him to an open shame.
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unfaithfulness, to depart from the living God.
And then shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another.
Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, listening to spirits of error and doctrines of demons;
Let no one deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,
They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is no one that 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 rebelled like their fathers; they became like a deceitful bow.
Forty years long I was grieved with this generation and said, It is a people that err from the heart, who have not known my ways;
He shall die because he did not submit to chastening; and due to the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man shall be separated from him.
The ashes feed him; his deceived heart inclines him, that he not deliver his soul and say, Is not the lie at my right hand?
Thine own wickedness shall chastise thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee; know therefore and see how evil and bitter it is, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God and that my fear is lacking in thee, saith the Lord GOD of the hosts.
Return, ye rebellious sons, and I will heal your rebellion. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the desert shall destroy them and a tiger shall lie in wait over their cities; anyone that goes out from there shall be torn in pieces because their rebellions have been multiplied, and their backslidings are increased. How shall I pardon thee for this? Thy sons have forsaken me and sworn by them that are not gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
But they did not hearken, nor incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels in the imagination of their evil heart and went backward, and not forward
Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded and covered their heads. Because the ground is chapped, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.read more.
Even the hind calved in the field and forsook it, because there was no grass. And the wild asses stood in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes failed because there was no grass. O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do it for thy name's sake; for our rebellions have multiplied; we have sinned against thee.
Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD; thou art gone backward: therefore, I stretched out my hand over thee and cast thee away; I am tired of repenting.
And the sword shall fall upon his cities and shall consume his villages and devour them because of their own counsels. Meanwhile, my people adhere to the rebellion against me though they call unto me upon High; absolutely none at all wish to exalt me.
O Israel, become converted unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
and likewise also the males, leaving the natural use of the females, burned in their lust one toward another, males with males committing nefarious works and receiving in themselves the recompense that proceeded from their error.
Now the just shall live by faith, but if any man draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Ye, therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things in advance, be on guard lest by the error of the wicked ye be deceived with the others and fall from your own steadfastness.
