24 Bible Verses about Falling Away From God
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And having fallen, again to renew to repentance; crucifying to themselves the Son of God, and exposing to ignominy.
See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in removing away from the living God.
And then shall many be offended, and they shall deliver up one another, and they shall hate one another.
And the Spirit says expressly, that in later times some shall be removed from the faith, holding to deceitful spirits, and doctrines of evil spirits;
Let none deceive you in any manner: for, except an apostasy come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
The unjust turned aside from the belly: they went astray from the womb, speaking falsehood.
And they will draw back, and they will transgress as their fathers: they were turned as a bow of deceit
Forty years I shall loathe to the generation, and saying, A people they wandering in heart, and they knew not my ways:
He shall die in not being instructed, and he shall wander in the multitude of his folly.
He drawing back the heart shall be filled from his ways: and a good man from above him.
He fed upon ashes: a deceived heart turned him away, and he shall not deliver his soul, and he shall not say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
Thy wickedness shall correct thee, and thy turnings back shall convict thee: and know thou and see that evil and bitter thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, and that my fear was not to thee, says the Lord Jehovah of armies.
Turn back, ye sons turning away; I will heal your turnings-away. Behold, we came to thee; for thou Jehovah our God.
For this, a lion from the forest struck them, a wolf of the deserts will destroy them, the panther watched over their cities: every one going forth from thence shall be torn in pieces; for their transgressions were multiplied, their turnings away were strong. How shall I forgive to thee for this? thy sons forsook me, and they will swear by not God; and I will satisfy them, and they will commit adultery, and they will crowd themselves together to the house of the harlot
And they heard not and inclined not their ear, and they went in the counsels in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and they shall be for behind and not before.
Judah mourned and her gates languished; they were darkened to the earth, and the outcry of Jerusalem went up. And their great ones sent their small ones to the waters; they came to the wells, they found no water; they turned back their vessels empty; they were ashamed and disgraced, and they covered their head. For the land was broken, for there was no rain in the land; the husband-men were ashamed, they covered their head.read more.
For also the hind brought forth in the field, and forsook, for there was no grass. And the wild asses stood upon the naked hills, they panted after the wind as the jackals; their eyes failed because no grass. If our iniquities answered against us, O Jehovah, do for sake of thy name: for our turnings back were many; we sinned against thee.
Thou didst reject me, says Jehovah; thou wilt go backward; and I will stretch forth my hand against thee, and I will destroy thee; I was weary of lamenting.
And the sword was polished in his cities, and it consumed his branches, and devoured from their counsels. And my people are bent to turning away from me: and they will call together to the Most High; he will not exalt them.
Turn back, O Israel, even to Jehovah thy God, for thou wert weak in thine iniquity.
Likewise also males, leaving the natural use of the female, were set on fire in their longing for one another; males with males working deformity, and the retribution which was needed receiving in themselves for their erring.
And the just one shall live by faith; but if he draw down, my soul is not contented in him.
You therefore, dearly beloved, knowing beforehand, watch, lest, led away by the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own stability.
