Pro 1:32, Jer 2:19, 8:5, 17:5, Hos 4:16, Zep 1:6, Heb 3:12, 2Pe 2:20-22 | ESV | STEP | For the simple are killed by their turning away , and the complacency of fools destroys them;

Proverbs 1:32

32 For the simple are killed by ^atheir turning away,
and ^bthe complacency of fools destroys them;

Jeremiah 2:19

19 ^cYour evil will chastise you,
and ^dyour apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and ^ebitter
for ^fyou to forsake the Lord your God;
the fear of me is not in you,

declares the Lord God of hosts.

Jeremiah 8:5

5 Why then has this people ^gturned away
in perpetual ^hbacksliding?
ⁱThey hold fast to deceit;
they refuse to return.

Jeremiah 17:5

5 Thus says the Lord:
“Cursed is the man ^jwho trusts in man
and makes flesh his strength, ^{▼▼Hebrew arm}
whose heart turns away from the Lord.

Hosea 4:16

16 Like a stubborn heifer,
Israel is stubborn;
can the Lord now feed them
like a lamb in a broad pasture?

Zephaniah 1:6

6 ^lthose who have turned back from following the Lord,
^mwho do not seek the Lord or inquire of him.”

Hebrews 3:12

12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from ⁿthe living God.

2 Peter 2:20-22

20 For if, ^oafter they have escaped the defilements of the world ^pthrough the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, ^qthe last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For ^rit would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from ^sthe holy commandment delivered to them. 22 What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The ^tdog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”