Bible Verses About Apostasy
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for apostasy, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 9,488 votes, led by 1 Timothy 4:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Apostasy
1 Timothy 4:1338 votes
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Thessalonians 2:3276 votes
Let 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;
2 Peter 2:20-22253 votes
For 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.
Hebrews 3:12221 votes
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Hebrews 6:4-8206 votes
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
2 Peter 3:17202 votes
Ye 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.
Luke 8:13182 votes
They 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.
Deuteronomy 13:6-11179 votes
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
Galatians 1:8-9171 votes
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Matthew 24:10170 votes
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
2 Timothy 3:1-9168 votes
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
1 Timothy 4:1-3148 votes
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
John 6:66136 votes
From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
1 John 2:19133 votes
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
2 Chronicles 15:13124 votes
That whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
Matthew 24:12119 votes
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
2 Timothy 4:3117 votes
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Hebrews 10:25-31111 votes
Not 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.
John 9:39-10:2991 votes
And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
John 15:686 votes
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
1 Corinthians 9:2775 votes
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
2 Timothy 4:1073 votes
For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
Jeremiah 17:572 votes
Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
Acts 21:2172 votes
And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.
Hosea 14:470 votes
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
What does the Bible say about apostasy?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 4:1 on the subject of apostasy. Across 9,488 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 2 Peter 2:20-22, Hebrews 3:12. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.