Zephaniah 1:6

God also condemns those who have turned away from Him and those who simply never seek Him. It matters because both active apostasy and spiritual indifference are forms of rebellion.

Cross-references · 20

• Jer 2:13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
• Isa 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
• Jer 15:6Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
• Jer 2:17Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
• Heb 10:38–39Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
• Ezek 3:20Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
• Hos 11:7And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
• Isa 9:13For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
• Jer 3:10And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
• 1 Sam 15:11It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
• 2 Pet 2:18–22For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
• Heb 2:3How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
• Ps 10:4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
• Hos 4:15–16Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
• Ps 125:5As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
• Ps 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
• Ps 14:2–3The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
• Hos 7:7They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
• Rom 3:11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
• Isa 43:22But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.

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