What does the Bible say about running away from god?

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• Psalms 139:7-10

  [7] Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence? [8] If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there! [9] If I take the wings of the dawn, And settle in the uttermost parts of the sea; [10] Even there your hand will lead me, And your right hand will hold me.

• 2 Peter 3:9

  The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

• Jonah 2:1-10

  [1] Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish's belly. [2] He said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice. [3] For you threw me into the depths, In the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me. [4] I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; Yet I will look again toward your holy temple.' [5] The waters surrounded me, Even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head. [6] I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: Yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God. [7] "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple. [8] Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy. [9] But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh." [10] Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

• 2 Timothy 1:7

  For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

• Romans 8:35-39

  [35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? [36] Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter." [37] No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. [38] For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, [39] nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Jeremiah 17:9

  The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

• Jeremiah 17:13

  Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

• Matthew 12:40

  For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

• Isaiah 50:10-11

  [10] Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God. [11] Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk you in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that you have kindled. This shall you have of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.

• Psalms 139:7

  Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

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