Bible Verses About Rebellion Against God

"'Yet they disobeyed and rebelled against you, throwing your Torah behind their backs. They killed your prophets for warning them that they should return to you and committed other gross provocations.

So you handed them over to the power of their adversaries, who oppressed them. Yet in the time of their trouble, when they cried out to you, you heard from heaven, and in keeping with your great compassion, you gave them saviors to save them from the power of their adversaries.

"There are those who rebel against the light -they don't know its ways or stay in its paths.

because they turned away from following him and gave no thought to any of his ways,

God, declare them guilty! Let them fall through their own intrigues, For their many crimes, throw them down; since they have rebelled against you.

With his power he rules forever; his eyes keep watch on the nations. Let no rebel arise to challenge him.

God gives homes to those who are alone and leads prisoners out into prosperity. But rebels must live in a parched wasteland.

After you went up into the heights, you led captivity captive, you took gifts among mankind, yes, even among the rebels, so that Yah, God, might live there.

He raised up a testimony in Ya'akov and established a Torah in Isra'el. He commanded our ancestors to make this known to their children,

Then they would not be like their ancestors, a stubborn, rebellious generation, a generation with unprepared hearts, with spirits unfaithful to God.

Next, they rejected the beautiful land, they didn't trust his promise;

and they complained in their tents, they didn't obey ADONAI.

Therefore, raising his hand, he swore to them that he would strike them down in the desert

and strike down their descendants among the nations, dispersing them in foreign lands.

because they defied God's word, scorned the counsel of the Most High.

So he humbled their hearts by hard labor; when they stumbled, no one came to their aid.

"Hear, heaven! Listen, earth! For ADONAI is speaking. "I raised and brought up children, but they rebelled against me.

An ox knows its owner and a donkey its master's stall, but Isra'el does not know, my people do not reflect.

"Where should I strike you next, as you persist in rebelling? The whole head is sick, the whole heart diseased.

but if you refuse and rebel, you will be eaten by the sword"; for the mouth of ADONAI has spoken.

Your leaders are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and run after gifts. They give no justice to orphans, the widow's complaint doesn't catch their attention.

"Woe to the rebellious children," says ADONAI. "They make plans, but the plans are not mine; they develop alliances, but not from my Spirit, in order to pile sin upon sin.

Now go, inscribe it on a tablet, write it for them in a scroll, so that on the final day it will be a witness forever and ever.

For this is a rebellious people; they are lying children, children who refuse to hear the Torah of ADONAI.

People of Isra'el! Return to him to whom you have been so deeply disloyal!