Apostasy of the Early Christian Church
- changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant: Isa. 24:5 .
- this people draw near me with their mouth: Isa. 29:13 .
- darkness shall cover the earth: Isa. 60:2 .
- a famine … of hearing the words of the Lord: Amos 8:11 .
- his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat: Matt. 13:25 .
- saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many: Matt. 24:5 .
- shall arise false Christs, and false prophets: Matt. 24:24 .
- his disciples went back, and walked no more with him: John 6:66 .
- shall grievous wolves enter in among you: Acts 20:29 .
- there be divisions among you: 1 Cor. 11:18 .
- I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him: Gal. 1:6 .
- who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey: Gal. 3:1 .
- shall not come, except there come a falling away first: 2 Thes. 2:3 .
- some having swerved have turned aside: 1 Tim. 1:6 .
- giving heed to seducing spirits: 1 Tim. 4:1 .
- all they which are in Asia be turned away from me: 2 Tim. 1:15 .
- Who concerning the truth have erred: 2 Tim. 2:18 .
- Having a form of godliness, but denying the power: 2 Tim. 3:5 .
- turn away their ears from the truth … unto fables: 2 Tim. 4:4 .
- profess that they know God; but in works they deny him: Titus 1:16 .
- From whence come wars and fightings among you: James 4:1 .
- false prophets also among the people: 2 Pet. 2:1 .
- being led away with the error of the wicked: 2 Pet. 3:17 .
- now are there many antichrists: 1 Jn. 2:18 .
- many false prophets are gone out into the world: 1 Jn. 4:1 .
- certain men crept in … denying the only Lord God: Jude 1:4 .
- which say they are apostles, and are not: Rev. 2:2 .
- thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot: Rev. 3:16 .
- to make war with the saints: Rev. 13:7 .
- formation of that great and abominable church: 1 Ne. 13:26 .
- the Gentiles … have stumbled: 2 Ne. 26:20 .
- Gentiles … will be drunken with iniquity: 2 Ne. 27:1 .
- transfigured the holy word of God: Morm. 8:33 .
- strayed from mine ordinances, and have broken mine everlasting covenant: D&C 1:15 .
- Satan … soweth the tares: D&C 86:3 .
- darkness covereth the earth, and gross darkness the minds of the people: D&C 112:23 .
- they were all wrong; … their hearts are far from me: JS—H 1:19 .
See also Matt. 24:11 ; Rom. 11:21 ; 1 Cor. 1:11 ; 1 Cor. 3:3 ; Col. 2:22 ; 1 Tim. 1:19 ; Titus 1:10 ; 2 Pet. 2:22 ; 3 Jn. 1:9 ; Rev. 2:5 ; 1 Ne. 11:34
