Bible Verses About Rebellion Against God

“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.

“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,

Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him. Selah.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell there.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,

but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to the LORD’s voice.

Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

that he would overthrow their seed among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.

because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help.

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for the LORD has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know, my people don’t consider.”

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.”

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says the LORD, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.

For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the LORD’s law;

Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.