'Deserting' in the Bible

You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the Lord your God when he was leading you along the right path.

But he only got as far as the Benjamin Gate. There an officer in charge of the guards named Irijah, who was the son of Shelemiah and the grandson of Hananiah, stopped him. He seized Jeremiah and said, "You are deserting to the Babylonians!"

Jeremiah answered, "That's a lie! I am not deserting to the Babylonians." But Irijah would not listen to him. Irijah put Jeremiah under arrest and took him to the officials.

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel --