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Afflictions Made Beneficial in Keeping Us from Again Departing from God Job 34:31, 32

Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more. / Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’

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Afflictions Made Beneficial in Keeping Us from Again Departing from God Isaiah 10:20

On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

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Afflictions Made Beneficial in Keeping Us from Again Departing from God Ezekiel 14:10, 11

They will bear their punishment—the punishment of the inquirer will be the same as that of the prophet— / in order that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. Then they will be My people and I will be their God, declares the Lord GOD.’”

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Backsliding is Departing from the Simplicity of the Gospel 2 Corinthians 11:3

I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.

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Backsliding is Departing from the Simplicity of the Gospel Galatians 3:1–3

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. / I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith? / Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh?

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Backsliding is Departing from the Simplicity of the Gospel Galatians 5:4, 7

You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. / You were running so well. Who has obstructed you from obeying the truth?

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Death: Miscellaneous Subjects: Departing Philippians 2:23

So I hope to send him as soon as I see what happens with me.

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Departing 2 Corinthians 5:6–8

Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord. / For we walk by faith, not by sight. / We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

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Departing John 1:1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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Departing James 5:16

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

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Departing 1 Corinthians 2:13

And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

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Families: Warning Against Departing from God Deuteronomy 29:18

Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

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Family of Saints: Warned Against Departing from God Deuteronomy 29:18

Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

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Natural Death is Described as Departing Philippians 1:23

I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better indeed.

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Rebellion Against God: Exhibited in Departing from Him Isaiah 59:13

rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.

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Rebellion Against God: Exhibited in Departing from his Instituted Worship Exodus 32:8, 9

How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’” / The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

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Rebellion Against God: Exhibited in Departing from his Instituted Worship Joshua 22:16–19

“This is what the whole congregation of the LORD says: ‘What is this breach of faith you have committed today against the God of Israel by turning away from the LORD and building for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel against the LORD this day? / Was not the sin of Peor enough for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day? It even brought a plague upon the congregation of the LORD. / And now, would you turn away from the LORD? If you rebel today against the LORD, tomorrow He will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

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Rebellion Against God: Exhibited in Departing from his Precepts Daniel 9:5

we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.

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Rulers: Wicked: Jehu, Departing not from the Sins of Jeroboam 2 Kings 10:29

but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.

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Rulers: Wicked: Jeroboam Ii, not Departing from the Sins of Jeroboam 2 Kings 14:23, 24

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Amaziah son of Joash over Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria forty-one years. / And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and did not turn away from all the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.

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The Sword: (Not Departing from One's House) of Perpetual Calamity 2 Samuel 12:10

Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

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Unbelief: Exhibited in Departing from God Hebrews 3:12

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.

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