Nave’s Topical Bible
Apostasy
52 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Described
- Caused by persecution
- Caused by worldliness
- Guilt and punishment of
- Cautions against
- Shall abound in the latter days
See ANTICHRIST
- UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Deuteronomy 32:15; 1 Chronicles 28:9; Isaiah 1:28; Isaiah 65:11-16; Jeremiah 17:5-6; Ezekiel 3:20; Ezekiel 18:24,26; Ezekiel 33:12-13,18; Matthew 13:20-21; Matthew 24:10,12; Mark 4:5-17; Luke 8:13; Luke 11:24-26; John 15:6; Acts 7:39-43; 1 Corinthians 9:27; 2 Thessalonians 2:3,11-12; 1 Timothy 4:1-2; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; 2 Timothy 4:3-4; Hebrews 6:4-8; Hebrews 10:26-29; 2 Peter 2:1,15,17,20-22; 2 Peter 3:17; Jude 1:4-6
- INSTANCES OF
- Israelites
- Saul
- Amaziah
- Disciples
- Judas
Matthew 26:14-16; Matthew 27:3-5; Mark 14:10-11; Luke 22:3-6,47-48; Acts 1:16-18
- Hymenaeus and Alexander
- Phygellus and Hermogenes
Bible verses about “Apostasy”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Deuteronomy 13:13Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
- Hebrews 3:12Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
- Matthew 24:9Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
- Matthew 24:10And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
- Luke 8:13They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
- 2 Timothy 4:10For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
- Zephaniah 1:4I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;
- Zephaniah 1:5And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham;
- Zephaniah 1:6And them that are turned back from the Lord; and those that have not sought the Lord, nor enquired for him.
- Hebrews 10:25Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
- Hebrews 10:26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
- Hebrews 10:27But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
- Hebrews 10:28He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
- Hebrews 10:29Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
- Hebrews 10:30For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
- Hebrews 10:31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
- Hebrews 10:39But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
- 2 Peter 2:17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
- 2 Peter 2:20For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
- 2 Peter 2:21For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
- 2 Peter 2:22But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
- 2 Peter 3:17Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
- Matthew 24:12And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
- 1 Timothy 4:1Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
- 1 Timothy 4:2Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
- 1 Timothy 4:3Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
- Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
- 1 Chronicles 28:9And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
- Isaiah 1:28And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
- Isaiah 65:11But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
- Isaiah 65:12Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
- Isaiah 65:13Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
- Isaiah 65:14Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
- Isaiah 65:15And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:
- Isaiah 65:16That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
- Jeremiah 17:5Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
- Jeremiah 17:6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
- Ezekiel 3:20Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
- Ezekiel 18:24But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.