I began collecting Scriptures that addressed leaving the faith; once I did I immediately noticed all on my list mentioned last days or the return of Christ.
“Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness…
Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” I Cor 10
“For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body…” Phil 3
“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;
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron…” I Tim 4
(Preface of the deliverance of Noah and Lot)
“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction…
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
For 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.
But 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 Pet 2
“For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.” Heb 10
“I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not… even as Sodom and Gomorrha… behold the Lord cometh… there should be mockers in the last time…” Jude
Other passages to consider:
Hab 2:3-4
John 15:1-17
Rom 1:16-32 & 2:1-16
I Thes 4:1-8
I Tim 1:19
2 Tim 3:1-4:1
Titus 1:10-16
Heb 3 & 4
Heb 6:1-12
Heb 10:22-39
Heb 12:15-29
Rev 2 & 3
2 John
Psalm 1
Psalm 5
Psalm 7:6-11
Psalm 17
Psalm 18:20-28
Psalm 26
Psalm 32
Psalm 36
Psalm 50
Psalm 75
Psalm 109:28
Psalm 112
Psalm 125:4-5
Isa 66:1-5
Jer 17:5-10
Deut 29:14-29
Job 5
Job 6:20-30
Job 8
Job 13
Job 15
Job 18
Job 19
Job 20
Job 21
Job 24
Job 27
Job 34
Job 36
Much of the book of Proverbs
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