12 and, because lawlessness abounds, the love of many will grow cold.
Bible verses about "apostasy" | Worrell
Matthew 24:12
Luke 8:13
13 "And those on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root; who, for a season, believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
2 Timothy 4:3
3 For there will be a time when they will not endure the healthful teaching; but, having itching ears, they will for themselves heap up teachers according to their own desires;
Hebrews 3:12
12 Take heed, brethren, lest at any time there shall be in anyone of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
1 Timothy 4:1-3
1 But the Spirit expressly saith, that in later times, some will fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and to teachings of demons,
2 in hypocrisy of men speaking lies, branded in their own conscience with a hot iron;
3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God created for reception with thanksgiving by those who believe and have full knowledge of the truth.
2 Peter 3:17
17 Ye, therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, be on your guard, lest, being carried away with error of the wicked, ye fall from your own steadfastness.
Matthew 24:10
10 And then will many be caused to stumble, and will deliver up one another, and hate one another;
Galatians 1:8-9
2 Timothy 3:1-9
1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come;
2 for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, fierce, no lovers of good,
4 traitors, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
5 holding a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from these also turn away.
6 For of these are those who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, and led on by manifold desires,
7 always learning, and never able to come to the full knowledge of the truth.
8 And as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these withstand the truth; men utterly corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith.
9 But they will proceed no further; for their folly will be fully manifest to all, as theirs also became.
2 Thessalonians 2:3
3 Let no one deceive you in any manner; because that day will not come, unless the falling away come first, and the man of lawlessness be revealed—the son of perdition;
Hebrews 10:26-29
26 For, if we sin wilfully after we received the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fierceness of fire about to devour the opposers.
28 Anyone, having set aside Moses' law, dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses;
29 of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be accounted worthy, who trampled under foot the Son of God, and accounted the blood of the covenant with which He was sanctified an unholy thing, and treated with contempt the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews 6:4-8
4 For as to those who were once enlightened, and tasted of the heavenly gift, and became partakers of the Holy Spirit,
5 and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the coming age,
6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying to themselves the Son of God afresh, and putting Him to open shame.
7 For the land which drank in the rain that often comes upon it, and brings forth an herb fit for those for whose sake also it is cultivated, receives blessing from God;
8 but, if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected, and is near to a curse; whose end is to be burned.
2 Peter 2:20-22
20 For if, after having escaped the defilements of the world in a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but, having again become entangled with these, they are overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first.
21 For it were better for them not to have fully known the way of righteousness, than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
22 It has happened to them according to the true proverb, "A dog having returned to his own vomit"; and "A sow that was washed, to her wallowing in mire."
1 Timothy 4:1
1 But the Spirit expressly saith, that in later times, some will fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and to teachings of demons,