Bible Verses About Turning Away From God
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for turning away from god, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 6,769 votes, led by 2 Peter 2:20-22. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Turning Away From God
2 Peter 2:20-22385 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 6:4-6371 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,
Isaiah 59:2325 votes
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Proverbs 14:12246 votes
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
1 John 1:9241 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Hebrews 10:26220 votes
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
John 6:64-69188 votes
But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
Ezekiel 33:11170 votes
Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Isaiah 53:6162 votes
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Romans 5:8136 votes
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
John 15:5130 votes
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Joshua 23:12-13120 votes
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
2 Timothy 2:13119 votes
If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
2 Timothy 4:3-4104 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;
John 10:10103 votes
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
1 Corinthians 5:11100 votes
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Ephesians 2:8100 votes
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Acts 3:1997 votes
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
2 Chronicles 7:1486 votes
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Romans 10:9-1085 votes
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
John 10:17-1880 votes
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
2 Corinthians 5:2174 votes
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Romans 6:2373 votes
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
2 Peter 3:971 votes
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Luke 15:11-3265 votes
And he said, A certain man had two sons:
What does the Bible say about turning away from god?
Readers most often cite 2 Peter 2:20-22 on the subject of turning away from god. Across 6,769 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 6:4-6, Isaiah 59:2, Proverbs 14:12. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.