24 Bible Verses about Falling Away From God
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if they fall away, should be renewed again unto repentance: Forasmuch as they have, as concerning themselves, crucified the son of God afresh, making a mock of him.
Take heed, brethren, that there be in none of you an evil heart, in unbelief, that he should depart from the living God:
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one the other.
The spirit speaketh evidently that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, and shall give heed unto spirits of error,
Let no man deceive you by any means, for the Lord cometh not, except there come a departing first, and that that sinful man be opened, the son of perdition;
But they are all gone out of the way, they are all together become abominable: there is none that doeth good, no not one.
The ungodly are froward, even from their mother's womb; as soon as they be born, they go astray and speak lies.
But turned their backs, and fell away like their forefathers, starting aside like a broken bow.
Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, and said, "They ever err in their hearts, they verily have not known my ways."
Because he would not be reformed, he shall die: and for his great foolishness he shall be destroyed.
An unfaithful person shall be filled with his own ways; but a good man will beware of such.
The keeping of dust, and foolishness of heart hath turned them aside: so that none of them can have a free conscience to think, "Do not I err?"
Thine own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy turning away shall condemn thee: that thou mayest know and understand, how evil and hurtful a thing it is, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and not feared him, sayeth the LORD God of Hosts.
"O ye shrinking children, turn again, saying, "Lo, we are thine, for thou art the LORD our God!" And so shall I heal your backturnings.
Wherefore a lion out of the wood shall hurt them, and a wolf in the evening shall destroy them. The cat of the mountain shall lie lurking by their cities, to tare in pieces all them that come thereout. For their offenses are many, and their departing away is great. "Should I then, for all this, have mercy upon thee? Thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. And albeit they were bound to me in marriage, yet they fell to adultery, and hunted harlots' houses.
But they were not obedient. They inclined not their ears thereunto, but went after their own imaginations and after the motions of their own wicked heart: and so turned themselves away, and converted not unto me.
"Judah shall mourn, men shall not go much more through his gates: the land shall be no more had in reputation, and the cry of Jerusalem shall break out. The lords shall send their servants to fetch water, and when they come to the wells, they shall find no water, but shall carry their vessels home empty. They shall be ashamed and confounded, and shall cover their heads. For the ground shall be dried up, because there cometh no rain upon it. The plowmen also shall be ashamed, and shall cover their heads.read more.
The Hind shall forsake the young fawn that she bringeth forth in the field because there shall be no grass. The wild Asses shall stand in the Moss, and draw in their wind like the Dragons, their eyes shall fail for want of grass." "Doubtless our own wickedness reward us: But LORD do thou according to thy name, though our transgressions and sins be many.
seeing thou goest from me and turnest backward? Sayeth the LORD: Therefore I will stretch out mine hand against thee, to destroy thee, and I will not be entreated.
Therefore shall the sword begin in their cities, the store that they have laid up shall be destroyed and eaten up: and that because of their own imaginations. My people hath no lust to turn unto me, their prophets lay the yoke upon them, but they ease them not of their burden.
Turn Israel unto the LORD thy God: For thou art fallen for thy wickednesses' sake.
And likewise also the men left the natural use of the woman, and burnt in their lusts, one on another, among themselves. And man with man wrought filthiness: and received in themselves the reward of their error, as it was according.
But the just shall live by faith. And if he withdraw himself, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know it beforehand: Beware, lest ye be also plucked away with the error of the wicked, and fall from your own steadfastness;
