Things Men Can Do

Neglect salvation and fail to escape wrath

Hebrews 2:1-3

1 We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

2 For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,

3 how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.

Be renewed after backsliding

Psalms 51:10  

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Depart from faith

1 Timothy 4:1  

The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.

Depart from inequity

2 Timothy 2:19  

Nevertheless, God's solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.”

Depart from God’s Word

2 Samuel 22:23  

All his laws are before me; I have not turned away from his decrees.

Depart from God

2 Samuel 22:22  

For I have kept the ways of the LORD; I have not done evil by turning from my God.

Hosea 1:2  

When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, “Go, take to yourself an adulterous wife and children of unfaithfulness, because the land is guilty of the vilest adultery in departing from the LORD.”

Depart from following God

2 Chronicles 34:33  

Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the territory belonging to the Israelites, and he had all who were present in Israel serve the LORD their God. As long as he lived, they did not fail to follow the LORD, the God of their fathers.

Psalms 18:21  

For I have kept the ways of the LORD; I have not done evil by turning from my God.

Psalms 119:102  

I have not departed from your laws, for you yourself have taught me.