Bible Verses about “turning away from god”
The Bible contains 23 verses about turning 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 righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
“But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
“For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,”
“I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”
“Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want to go away, do you?"”
“Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.”
“We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."”
“But there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him.”
“He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."”
“At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.”
“There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.”
“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.”
“All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
“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."”
“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.”
“For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,”
“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.”
“and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,”
“but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.”
“If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He can't deny himself."”
“Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?”
“"But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;”
“know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.”