14 Bible Verses about Backsliding, Causes

So he called the name of the place, Massah, and Meribah, - because of the fault-finding of the sons of Israel, and because of their putting Yahweh to the proof, saying, Is Yahweh in our midst or is he not?

Take heed to thyself, lest thou forget Yahweh thy God, - so as not to keep his commandments and his regulations and his statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day; lest thou eat, and be satisfied, - and goodly houses, thou build and inhabit; and thy herd and thy flock, increase, and silver and gold, increase unto thee, - and all that thou hast, increase;read more.
and so thy heart be lifted up, - and thou forget Yahweh thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt out of the house of servants;

But lusted a lust in the desert, and tested GOD in the waste.

Before grievous injury, pride! and, before a fall, haughtiness of spirit!

And others are they who among thorns are sown, - these are they who hear the word, and, the anxieties of the age, and the deceit of wealth, and the covetings about the remaining things, entering in, choke up the word, and, unfruitful, it becometh;

For, a root of all the vices, is the love of money, which, some, being eager for, have been seduced from the faith, and have pierced, themselves, about with many pangs.

For, he to whom these things are not present, is, blind, seeing only what is near, having come, to forget, his purification from his old sins.

For this cause, it behoveth us, with unwonted firmness, to be holding fast unto the things that have been heard, lest, at any time, we drift away.

Be taking heed, brethren, lest at any time, there shall be in any one of you, a wicked heart of unbelief, in revolting from a Living God.

Nevertheless, I have against thee, that, thy first love, thou hast left.

As for them who turn aside unto their crooked ways, Yahweh, will lead them forth, with the workers of iniquity, Prosperity on Israel!

For, already, some have turned aside after Satan:

For, Demas, hath forsaken me, having loved the present age, and hath journeyed unto Thessalonica; Crescens unto Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia:

I marvel that, thus quickly, ye are moving away from him that called you in the favour of Christ, unto a different glad-message, - Which is not, another, only there are, some, that are troubling you, and wishing to change the glad-message of the Christ.