9 Bible Verses about Half Heartedness
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so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin.
And he said, "Take the arrows," and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground with them." And he struck three times and stopped.
Then the man of God was angry with him and said, "You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Syria until you had made an end of it, but now you will strike down Syria only three times."
The high places, however, were not taken away; the people had not yet set their hearts upon the God of their fathers.
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not with a whole heart.
Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the LORD."
Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and destroy their pillars.