Bible Verses about โrunning away from godโ
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.
โIf we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.โ
โFor God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.โ
โThe Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.โ
โNo, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.โ
โFor I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,โ
โnor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.โ
โFor everything spoken by God is possible."โ
โThe heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?โ
โWho shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?โ
โEven as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."โ
โIf I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;โ
โEven there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.โ
โWhere could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?โ
โIf I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!โ
โFor as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.โ
โI run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEYโ
โThe waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.โ
โThose who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.โ
โHe said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.โ
โI went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.โ
โ"When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.โ
โFor you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.โ
โI said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'โ
โBut I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh."โ
โThen Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish's belly.โ
โYahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.โ
โWho is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God.โ
โBehold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves; walk in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that you have kindled. You shall have this of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.โ
โThe news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.โ
โYahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.โ
โThe word of Yahweh came to Jonah the second time, saying,โ
โ"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you."โ
โSo Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across.โ
โJonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"โ
โThe people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.โ
โHe made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;โ
โbut let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.โ
โWho knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"โ
โGod saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn't do it.โ
