Bible verses about "apostasy" | Godbey

¹² And because iniquity doth abound, the divine love of many will grow cold.

¹³ And those on the stones are they who, when they may hear, receive the word with joy; and they have no root in them, who believe for a time, and in time of temptation they fall away.

³ For the time will come when they will not endure healthy teaching; but according to their own lusts they will heap to themselves teachers itching as to their hearing;

¹² See, brethren, lest at some time there shall be in some one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in turning away from the living God:

¹ But the Spirit says positively, that in the last times certain ones will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and to the teachings of demons, ² speaking lies in hypocrisy, having been cauterized as to their own conscience, ³ forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the faithful and to those perfectly knowing the truth.

¹⁷ Then you, beloved, foreknowing watch, lest, having been led away by the delusion of the ungodly, you may fall from your own stedfastness:

¹⁰ and then many will be offended; and they will betray one another, and hate one another.

⁸ But indeed if we, or an angel from heaven, may preach unto you any other gospel except that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. ⁹ As we have before said, and now again I tell you, If any one preaches to you a gospel except that which you have received, let him be accursed.

¹ But know this, that in the last days perilous times shall come. ² For men will be lovers of themselves, moneylovers, arrogant, proud, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ without natural affections, covenant breakers, devilish, intemperate, furious, opposed to good, ⁴ traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; ⁵ having a form of godliness, but denying the power of the same: and from these turn away. ⁶ For of these are those creeping into houses, and leading captive little, silly women laden with sins, being led by divers lusts, ⁷ always learning, and never able to come into the perfect knowledge of the truth. ⁸ In the manner in which Jannes and Jambres also resisted Moses, so these indeed resist the truth; men who are corrupt as to their mind, reprobate concerning the faith. ⁹ But they shall proceed no further: for their insanity will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

³ Let no one deceive you in any way: because unless there may first be an apostasy and the man of lawlessness may be revealed, the son of perdition,

²⁶ For we sinning willingly after we have received the perfect knowledge of the truth, there is left no more sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a certain fearful anticipation of judgment and violence of fire, about to devour the adversaries. ²⁸ The one having rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy before two or three witnesses: ²⁹ of how much more terrible punishment, do you think, the one having trodden under foot the Son of God, and counted the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, common, and insulted the Spirit of grace; be counted worthy!

⁴ For it is impossible that those having been once enlightened, and tasted the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Ghost, ⁵ and having tasted the beautiful word of God, and the dynamites of the coming age, ⁶ indeed having fallen away, to renew them again unto repentance; having crucified to themselves again the Son of God, and put him to an open shame. ⁷ For the earth drinking the rain coming often upon her, and bringing forth the herb nutritious to those by whom it is also cultivated, receives blessings from God: ⁸ but that which produces thorns and thistles, is reprobate, and nigh unto the curse; whose end is unto burning.

²⁰ For if having escaped the pollutions of the world through the perfect knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and having again become entangled in these things, they are overcome, the last state has to them become worse than the first. ²¹ For it was better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment which has been delivered unto them. ²² It has happened unto them according to the old proverb, The dog having returned to his own vomit; and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.

¹ But the Spirit says positively, that in the last times certain ones will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and to the teachings of demons,