What Does the Bible Say About Falling?

Proverbs 24:16 ESV / 55 helpful votes

For the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.

Micah 7:8 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 26 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Psalm 118:13 ESV / 26 helpful votes

I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but the Lord helped me.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 17 helpful votes

“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. ...

Revelation 2:4-5 ESV / 15 helpful votes

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

Proverbs 16:18 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Hebrews 6:4-6 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Psalm 46:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.

Jude 1:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;

James 4:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Romans 10:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

John 12:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

Luke 17:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And he fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan.

Matthew 24:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

Daniel 3:1-30 ESV / 5 helpful votes

King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its breadth six cubits. He set it up on the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent to gather the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. Then the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces gathered for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And the herald proclaimed aloud, “You are commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages, that when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. ...

Isaiah 34:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.

Revelation 17:1-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.” ...

Revelation 12:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.

Jude 1:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Ephesians 6:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Proverbs 24:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,

1 John 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 Peter 2:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

James 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.

2 Thessalonians 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,

2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Romans 8:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...

Luke 18:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

Luke 1:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Joel 2:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.

Daniel 7:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

Isaiah 45:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the Lord all the offspring of Israel shall be justified and shall glory.”

Song of Solomon 8:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.

Proverbs 10:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

1 Kings 8:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

Deuteronomy 11:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.

55 Bible Verses about Falling

Proverbs 24:16 ESV / 55 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Micah 7:8 ESV / 43 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 3:23 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 118:13 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 6:23 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 2:4-5 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 16:18 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 6:4-6 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 46:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jude 1:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 4:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 4:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 10:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 12:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 17:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 24:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 3:1-30 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 34:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 17:1-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 12:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jude 1:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 2:38 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 24:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 2:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Thessalonians 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 18:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joel 2:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 7:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 45:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 8:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 10:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 8:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 11:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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