Zephaniah 1:6
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6 (A)Those who have turned back from following the Lord,
And (B)have not sought the Lord, nor inquired of Him.”
Jeremiah 2:13
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13 “For My people have committed two evils:
They have forsaken Me, the (A)fountain of living waters,
And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Isaiah 1:4
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4 Alas, sinful nation,
A people [a]laden with iniquity,
(A)A [b]brood of evildoers,
Children who are corrupters!
They have forsaken the Lord,
They have provoked to anger
The Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away backward.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:4 Lit. heavy, weighed down
- Isaiah 1:4 offspring, seed
Jeremiah 15:6
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6 (A)You have forsaken Me,” says the Lord,
“You have (B)gone backward.
Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you;
(C)I am [a]weary of relenting!
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 15:6 tired
Jeremiah 2:17
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17 (A)Have you not brought this on yourself,
In that you have forsaken the Lord your God
When (B)He led you in the way?
2 Peter 2:18-22
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Deceptions of False Teachers
18 For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who [a]have actually escaped from those who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of [b]corruption; (A)for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into [c]bondage. 20 For if, after they (B)have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are (C)again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. 21 For (D)it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: (E)“A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”
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- 2 Peter 2:18 NU are barely escaping
- 2 Peter 2:19 depravity
- 2 Peter 2:19 slavery
Hebrews 10:38-39
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39 But we are not of those (B)who draw back to [b]perdition, but of those who (C)believe to the saving of the soul.
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- Hebrews 10:38 NU My just one
- Hebrews 10:39 destruction
Hosea 11:7
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7 My people are bent on (A)backsliding from Me.
Though [a]they call [b]to the Most High,
None at all exalt Him.
Footnotes
- Hosea 11:7 The prophets
- Hosea 11:7 Or upward
Jeremiah 3:10
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10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me (A)with her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the Lord.
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Isaiah 9:13
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13 For the people do not turn to Him who strikes them,
Nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.
Hebrews 2:3
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3 (A)how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, (B)which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was (C)confirmed to us by those who heard Him,
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Romans 3:11
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11 There is none who understands;
There is none who seeks after God.
Hosea 4:15-16
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15 “Though you, Israel, play the harlot,
Let not Judah offend.
(A)Do not come up to Gilgal,
Nor go up to (B)Beth[a] Aven,
(C)Nor swear an oath, saying, ‘As the Lord lives’—
16 “For Israel (D)is stubborn
Like a stubborn calf;
Now the Lord will let them forage
Like a lamb in [b]open country.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:15 Lit. House of Idolatry or Wickedness
- Hosea 4:16 Lit. a large place
Ezekiel 3:20
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20 “Again, when a (A)righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.
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Psalm 125:5
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5 As for such as turn aside to their (A)crooked ways,
The Lord shall lead them away
With the workers of iniquity.
(B)Peace be upon Israel!
Psalm 10:4
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Footnotes
- Psalm 10:4 Or All his thoughts are, “There is no God”
1 Samuel 15:11
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11 (A)“I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has (B)turned back from following Me, (C)and has not performed My commandments.” And it (D)grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the Lord all night.
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Hosea 7:7
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7 They are all hot, like an oven,
And have devoured their judges;
All their kings have fallen.
(A)None among them calls upon Me.
Isaiah 43:22
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Pleading with Unfaithful Israel
22 “But you have not called upon Me, O Jacob;
And you (A)have been weary of Me, O Israel.
Psalm 36:3
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3 The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;
(A)He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
Psalm 14:2-3
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2 (A)The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.
3 (B)They have all turned aside,
They have together become corrupt;
There is none who does good,
No, not one.
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