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 2:13“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
• Isa 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
• Jer 15:6You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward: therefore I have stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting.
• Jer 2:17“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
• Heb 10:38–39But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
• Ezek 3:20“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.
• Hos 11:7My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.
• Isa 9:13Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
• Jer 3:10Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.
• 1 Sam 15:11“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
• 2 Pet 2:18–22For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
• Heb 2:3how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation — which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
• Ps 10:4The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
• Hos 4:15–16“Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don’t let Judah offend; and don’t come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, ‘As Yahweh lives.’
• Ps 125:5But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
• Ps 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
• Ps 14:2–3Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
• Hos 7:7They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.
• Rom 3:11There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
• Isa 43:22Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.

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