Bible Verses about “running away from god”
The Bible contains 39 verses about running away from god across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
“¶ The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
“Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,”
“Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
“For with God nothing shall be impossible.”
“The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”
“As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
“[If] I take the wings of the morning, [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;”
“Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.”
“¶ Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?”
“If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou [art there].”
“‹For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.›”
“I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.”
“The waters compassed me about, [even] to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.”
“They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.”
“And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice.”
“I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.”
“When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.”
“For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.”
“Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.”
“But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay [that] that I have vowed. Salvation [is] of the LORD.”
“¶ Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,”
“¶ And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry [land].”
“¶ Who [is] among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh [in] darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.”
“Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass [yourselves] about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks [that] ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.”
“For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered [him] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.”
“O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.”
“¶ And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,”
“Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.”
“So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.”
“And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.”
“¶ So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.”
“And he caused [it] to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:”
“But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that [is] in their hands.”
“Who can tell [if] God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?”
“And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did [it] not.”