7 Bible Verses about Apostasy, Cause

Simon, Simon, lo! Satan hath asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat.

For I know this, that after my departure grievous wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

For the time will come, when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own desires will they heap to themselves teachers; because they have itching ears;

There remaineth therefore a sabbathrest to the people of God. For he that hath entered into his rest, hath himself rested from his works, as God did from his own. Let us then strive to enter into that rest, that no one may fall, as a like example of disobedience.

For Demas forsook me, because he loved the present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

But when they heard these things, their hearts were filled with rage, and they gnashed their teeth at him.

So, disagreeing with one another, they took their departure, after Paul had spoken one word: Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers, saying, "Go to this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see and not perceive. For the heart of this people hath become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn from their ways, and I should heal them."