Bible Verses about โfalling awayโ
The Bible contains 34 verses about falling away across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โThis is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,โ
โBlessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.โ
โbut I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.โ
โBut the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,โ
โBut he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.โ
โBecause iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.โ
โMany false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.โ
โThen many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.โ
โBut I have this against you, that you left your first love.โ
โRemember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.โ
โlet him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.โ
โFor 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.โ
โBut 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."โ
โFor 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.โ
โBrothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,โ
โFor concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,โ
โand 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.โ
โand tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,โ
โPay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.โ
โLet 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,โ
โbut exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.โ
โI am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.โ
โTrue; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;โ
โSee then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.โ
โBut I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.โ
โYou will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."โ
โfor if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.โ
โBeware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;โ
โFor we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:โ
โWe see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.โ
โwhile it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."โ
โFor who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn't all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?โ
โWith whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?โ
โTo whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?โ
