Bible verses about "apostasy" | MNT

¹² and because of the increase of iniquity the love of the majority will grow cold;

¹³ "Those on the rock are people who, upon hearing, receive the word with joy; but they have no root. For a time indeed they all believe, but in time of temptation they fall away.

³ For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will heap up for themselves teachers upon teachers to satisfy their own fancies.

¹² See to it, brothers, that there shall never be in any one of you an evil and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in apostasy from the living God.

¹ Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in latter days there will be some who will fall away from the faith, by listening to spirits of error, and to teachings of demons ² speaking lies in hypocrisy. These are men whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron, ³ who discourage marriage, and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thankfulness, by those who believe, and have a clear knowledge of the truth.

¹⁷ Do you therefore, beloved, because you know these things beforehand, be on your guard lest you be led astray by the error of the wicked, and so fall from your own stedfastness.

¹⁰ And then many will stumble and fall, and will betray one another, and hate one another.

⁸ But even though I myself or an angel from heaven were to preach any gospel other than that which I did preach to you, let him be accursed. ⁹ I have said it before, and I now repeat it, if any one is preaching a gospel to you other than that which you have received, let him be accursed.

¹ But of this be sure. In the last days grievous times will come. ² For men will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreligious, ³ without natural affection, merciless, slanderous, dissolute, and brutal. ⁴ They will hate goodness, they will be treacherous, reckless, blinded with pride, lovers of pleasure, rather than lovers of God. ⁵ For although they keep up the outward form of religion, they deny its power. ⁶ Turn away from all such. Some of them creep into private houses and lead captive silly women who, laden with sins, ⁷ and led captive by ever-changing impulses, are always learning but never able to arrive at knowledge of truth. ⁸ As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these men withstand the truth; being corrupt in mind and worthless in all that concerns the faith. ⁹ But they will not get on; for their folly will be made as openly manifest to all as was that of Jannes and Jambres.

³ Let no one deceive you by any means. For it will not come until after the Great Apostasy, and the revealing of the Man of Sin, the son of perdition,

²⁶ For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any other sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fiery indignation which is about to devour the adversaries. ²⁸ Any one who set at naught the law of Moses was put to death without pity, on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ How much surer, think you, will be the punishment of one who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has profaned that covenant blood with which he was sanctified, and has done despite to the spirit of grace?

⁴ For in the case of those who have been once for all enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift, ⁵ and become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the Future Age, ⁶ and then fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance. For they repeatedly crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and expose him to an open shame. ⁷ For land that has drunk the showers that now and again fall upon it, and produced vegetation useful for those for whom it was tilled, receives a blessing from God; ⁸ but if it produces thorns and thistles, it is considered worthless, and is in danger of being cursed, and its end will be to be burned.

²⁰ For if, after having escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them and overpowered, their last state is become worse than their first. ²¹ Indeed it would have been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them. ²² In their case it has happened according to the true proverb, The dog returns again to his own vomit, and The sow, after washing, to her wallowing in the mire.

¹ Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in latter days there will be some who will fall away from the faith, by listening to spirits of error, and to teachings of demons