24 Bible Verses about Falling Away From God
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If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing 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, giving heed to deceitful spirits, and doctrines of demons;
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come the 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 none 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 dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Forty years long was I grieved with this 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 shall be satisfied from above himself.
He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.
Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto you; for you are the LORD our God.
Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the desert shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: everyone that goes out there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased. How shall I pardon you for this? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil hearts, and went backward, and not forward.
Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they mourn for the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up. And their nobles have sent their little ones for water: they came to the cisterns, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. Because the ground is parched, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.read more.
Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass. And the wild donkeys did stand in the high places, they sniffed at the wind like jackals; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass. O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do it for your name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
You have forsaken me, says the LORD, you are gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary of relenting.
And the sword shall rage against his cities, and shall consume his districts, and devour them, because of their own counsels. And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
O Israel, return unto the LORD your God; for you have fallen because of your iniquity.
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is shameful, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was fitting.
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things beforehand, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
