APOSTASY

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• Deuteronomy 13:13

  certain base fellows have gone out from among you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known;

• Deuteronomy 32:15

  But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

• 1 Samuel 15:26

  Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 15:27

  As Samuel turned around to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.

• 1 Samuel 15:28

  Samuel said to him, “Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

• 1 Samuel 15:29

  Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”

• 1 Samuel 18:12

  Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul.

• 1 Samuel 28:15

  Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?” Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.”

• 1 Samuel 28:18

  Because you didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice, and didn’t execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you today.

• 1 Chronicles 28:9

  You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

• 2 Chronicles 25:14

  Now after Amaziah had come from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense to them.

• 2 Chronicles 25:27

  Now from the time that Amaziah turned away from following Yahweh, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. He fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.

• Isaiah 1:28

  But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

• Isaiah 65:11

  “But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;

• Isaiah 65:12

  I will destine you to the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer. When I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

• Isaiah 65:13

  Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed;

• Isaiah 65:14

  Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.

• Isaiah 65:15

  You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you. He will call his servants by another name,

• Isaiah 65:16

  so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes.

• Jeremiah 17:5

  Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 17:6

  For he shall be like a bush in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

• Ezekiel 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.

• Ezekiel 18:24

  “But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

• Ezekiel 18:26

  When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.

• Ezekiel 33:12

  You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.

• Ezekiel 33:13

  When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.

• Ezekiel 33:18

  When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.

• Zephaniah 1:4

  I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests,

• Zephaniah 1:5

  those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,

• Zephaniah 1:6

  those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

• Matthew 13:20

  What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;

• Matthew 13:21

  yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

• Matthew 24:9

  Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

• Matthew 24:10

  Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

• Matthew 24:12

  Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

• Matthew 26:14

  Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,

• Matthew 26:15

  and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

• Matthew 26:16

  From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.

• Matthew 27:3

  Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

• Matthew 27:4

  saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

• Matthew 27:5

  He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

• Mark 4:5

  Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

• Mark 4:6

  When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

• Mark 4:7

  Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

• Mark 4:8

  Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”

• Mark 4:9

  He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

• Mark 4:10

  When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

• Mark 4:11

  He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

• Mark 4:12

  that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’”

• Mark 4:13

  He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

• Mark 4:14

  The farmer sows the word.

• Mark 4:15

  The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

• Mark 4:16

  These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

• Mark 4:17

  They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

• Mark 14:10

  Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.

• Mark 14:11

  They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.

• Luke 8:13

  Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

• Luke 11:24

  The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’

• Luke 11:25

  When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.

• Luke 11:26

  Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

• Luke 22:3

  Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve.

• Luke 22:4

  He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them.

• Luke 22:5

  They were glad, and agreed to give him money.

• Luke 22:6

  He consented, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them in the absence of the multitude.

• Luke 22:47

  While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him.

• Luke 22:48

  But Jesus said to him, “Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?”

• John 6:66

  At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

• John 15:6

  If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

• Acts 1:16

  “Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

• Acts 1:17

  For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.

• Acts 1:18

  Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.

• Acts 7:39

  to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

• Acts 7:40

  saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’

• Acts 7:41

  They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

• Acts 7:42

  But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

• Acts 7:43

  You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’

• 1 Corinthians 9:27

  but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:3

  Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

• 2 Thessalonians 2:11

  Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

• 2 Thessalonians 2:12

  that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

• 1 Timothy 1:19

  holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith;

• 1 Timothy 1:20

  of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

• 1 Timothy 4:1

  But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

• 1 Timothy 4:2

  through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

• 1 Timothy 4:3

  forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

• 2 Timothy 1:15

  This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

• 2 Timothy 3:1

  But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.

• 2 Timothy 3:2

  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

• 2 Timothy 3:3

  without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

• 2 Timothy 3:4

  traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

• 2 Timothy 3:5

  holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

• 2 Timothy 3:6

  For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

• 2 Timothy 3:7

  always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

• 2 Timothy 3:8

  Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.

• 2 Timothy 3:9

  But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.

• 2 Timothy 4:3

  For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

• 2 Timothy 4:4

  and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.

• 2 Timothy 4:10

  for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

• Hebrews 3:12

  Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

• Hebrews 6:4

  For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

• Hebrews 6:5

  and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,

• Hebrews 6:6

  and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

• Hebrews 6:7

  For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

• Hebrews 6:8

  but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

• Hebrews 10:25

  not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

• Hebrews 10:26

  For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

• Hebrews 10:27

  but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

• Hebrews 10:28

  A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

• Hebrews 10:29

  How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

• Hebrews 10:30

  For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me,” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

• Hebrews 10:31

  It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

• Hebrews 10:39

  But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

• 2 Peter 1:4

  by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

• 2 Peter 1:5

  Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

• 2 Peter 1:6

  and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

• 2 Peter 2:1

  But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

• 2 Peter 2:15

  forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

• 2 Peter 2:17

  These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

• 2 Peter 2:20

  For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

• 2 Peter 2:21

  For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

• 2 Peter 2:22

  But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”

• 2 Peter 3:17

  You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.