23 Bible Verses about apostasy

Do you therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] before, be on your guard not to be carried away with the error of the wicked and fall from your steadfastness,

having faith and a good conscience, which some having cast away have suffered shipwreck of the faith;

But the Spirit says expressly, that in the last times some shall apostatize from the faith, attending to lying spirits and doctrines of demons,

and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned to myths.

See, brothers, that there be not at any time in any one of you an evil mind of unbelief in departing from the living God;

Then went one of the twelve called Judas Iscariot to the chief priests, and said, What will you give me to deliver him to you? And they gave him thirty [shekels] of silver [$16.80]. And from that time he sought a good opportunity to deliver him up.

Then Judas, who betrayed him, seeing that he was condemned, repenting, returned the thirty shekels of silver [$16.80] to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned, betraying innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see you to it. And throwing down the silver in the temple he departed; and having gone away strangled himself.

And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to betray him to them. And when they heard him they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might betray him at a convenient time.

And Satan entered into Judas, called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve; and he went and conferred with the chief priests and commanders as to how he might deliver him to them. And they were glad, and agreed to give him money. read more.
And he promised, and sought a convenient opportunity to betray him to them in the absence of the people.

And while he was yet speaking, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, came before them, and he approached Jesus to kiss him. But Jesus said to him, Judas, do you betray the Son of man with a kiss?

not forsaking our own congregation as some are in the habit of [doing], but exhorting [others], and so much the more as you see the day approaching. For if we sin willingly after having received the knowledge of the truth, there is no longer a sacrifice left for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation, which is about to consume the adversaries. read more.
Any one who despised the law of Moses died without mercy by two or three witnesses; of how much greater punishment do you suppose he will be thought worthy, who has trodden down the Son of God, and accounted defiled the blood of the covenant with which he was purified, and treated injuriously the Spirit of grace. For we know him that said, Judgment belongs to me, I will repay. And again, The Lord will judge his people. It is fearful to fall into the hands of the living God.

But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of faith to the saving of the soul.

These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, to which is reserved the blackness of darkness.

For if having escaped the defilements of the world by a knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome by them, the last state of those persons is worse than the first. For it is better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, having known, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog returned to his vomit, and the swine that was washed to wallowing in filth.

and because wickedness shall abound the love of the many shall become cold:

Let no one deceive you in any way, for [he shall not come] unless the apostacy comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

But the Spirit says expressly, that in the last times some shall apostatize from the faith, attending to lying spirits and doctrines of demons, [misled] by the hypocrisy of false teachers, whose consciences are cauterized, who forbid to marry, [command] to abstain from meat, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and those who know the truth.

those on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy, and they have no root; they believe for a time, and in a time of trial fall away;

Then they shall deliver you to affliction, and kill you, and you shall be hated by all nations on my account; and then many shall be offended, and shall betray one another, and hate one another;

Do you therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] before, be on your guard not to be carried away with the error of the wicked and fall from your steadfastness,

See, brothers, that there be not at any time in any one of you an evil mind of unbelief in departing from the living God;

See, brothers, that there be not at any time in any one of you an evil mind of unbelief in departing from the living God;

having faith and a good conscience, which some having cast away have suffered shipwreck of the faith; of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

You know this, that all those in Asia left me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

From this time many of his disciples went away from following him, and walked no more with him.

for Demas forsook me having loved the present life and went to Thessalonica, Cresces to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia;

For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.