13 Bible Verses about Backsliding, Causes

And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not?

Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day: And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them; And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort;read more.
Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;

They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.

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

And others are those planted among the thorns; these are they who have given ear to the word, And the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, and the desire for other things coming in, put a stop to the growth of the word, and it gives no fruit.

For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.

For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.

For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.

My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:

But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.

For even now some are turned away to Satan.

For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort; Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.