17 Bible Verses about Forsaking God's Things

And they abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

When the rule of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.

They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.

And they abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.

"And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,

And he answered, "I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father's house, because you have abandoned the commandments of the LORD and followed the Baals.

You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men."

And the LORD says: "Because they have forsaken my law that I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in accord with it,

Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, who forsake your law.

"But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

He said, "I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away."

He said, "I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away."

So I confronted the officials and said, "Why is the house of God forsaken?" And I gathered them together and set them in their stations.