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Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.
Deuteronomy Chapter 4: Verse 9
Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.
Deuteronomy Chapter 29: Verse 18
"I am grieved that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions." Samuel was troubled, and he cried out to the LORD all that night.
1 Samuel Chapter 15: Verse 11
As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been.
1 Kings Chapter 11: Verse 4
I will listen to what God the LORD will say; he promises peace to his people, his saints, but let them not return to folly.
Psalms Chapter 85: Verse 8
For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;
Proverbs Chapter 1: Verse 32
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
Proverbs Chapter 26: Verse 11
Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the LORD your God and have no awe of me," declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.
Jeremiah Chapter 2: Verse 19
During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, "Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there.
Jeremiah Chapter 3: Verse 6
I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery.
Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.
In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense," declares the LORD.
The LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah.
Go, proclaim this message toward the north: " 'Return, faithless Israel,' declares the LORD, 'I will frown on you no longer, for I am merciful,' declares the LORD, 'I will not be angry forever.
Only acknowledge your guilt, you have rebelled against the LORD your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me,' " declares the LORD.
"Return, faithless people," declares the LORD, "for I am your husband. I will choose you,one from a town and two from a clan,and bring you to Zion.
Jeremiah Chapter 3: Verses 8 - 14
"Return, faithless people; I will cure you of backsliding." "Yes, we will come to you, for you are the LORD our God.
Jeremiah Chapter 3: Verse 22
Therefore a lion from the forest will attack them, a wolf from the desert will ravage them, a leopard will lie in wait near their towns to tear to pieces any who venture out, for their rebellion is great and their backslidings many.
Jeremiah Chapter 5: Verse 6
Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
Jeremiah Chapter 8: Verse 5
Although our sins testify against us, O LORD, do something for the sake of your name. For our backsliding is great; we have sinned against you.
Jeremiah Chapter 14: Verse 7
How long will you wander, O unfaithful daughter? The LORD will create a new thing on earth, a woman will surround a man."
Jeremiah Chapter 31: Verse 22
Why do you boast of your valleys, boast of your valleys so fruitful? O unfaithful daughter, you trust in your riches and say, 'Who will attack me?'
Jeremiah Chapter 49: Verse 4
"Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. Since you did not warn him, he will die for his sin. The righteous things he did will not be remembered, and I will hold you accountable for his blood.
Ezekiel Chapter 3: Verse 20
If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does evil, he will die for it.
Ezekiel Chapter 33: Verse 18
The Israelites are stubborn, like a stubborn heifer. How then can the LORD pasture them like lambs in a meadow?
Hosea Chapter 4: Verse 16
My people are determined to turn from me. Even if they call to the Most High, he will by no means exalt them.
Hosea Chapter 11: Verse 7
"I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them.
Hosea Chapter 14: Verse 4
"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
Matthew Chapter 5: Verse 13
Jesus replied, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God."
Luke Chapter 9: Verse 62
If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
John Chapter 15: Verse 6
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel,
Galatians Chapter 1: Verse 6
But now that you know God,or rather are known by God,how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
Galatians Chapter 4: Verse 9
holding on to faith and a good conscience. Some have rejected these and so have shipwrecked their faith.
1 Timothy Chapter 1: Verse 19
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.Paul's Charge to Timothy
1 Timothy Chapter 6: Verse 10
for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
2 Timothy Chapter 4: Verse 10
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
Hebrews Chapter 3: Verse 12
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,
who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age,
if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.
Hebrews Chapter 6: Verses 4 - 6
If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left,
but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
Hebrews Chapter 10: Verses 26 - 27
But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him."
But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.
Hebrews Chapter 10: Verses 38 - 39
If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.
2 Peter Chapter 2: Verse 20
Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love.
Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.
Revelation Chapter 2: Verses 4 - 5
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