14 Bible Verses about Backsliding, Causes

And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah because of the chiding of the sons of Israel and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

Keep thyself, that thou forget not the LORD thy God, to not fulfill his commandments and his rights and his statutes, which I command thee this day, lest peradventure when thou hast eaten and art full and hast built goodly houses and dwelt therein, and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied and all that thou hast is multiplied,read more.
then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery,

They gave themselves over to lust in the wilderness and tempted God in the desert.

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

And these are those who are sown among thorns, such as hear the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

For the love of money is the root of all evil, which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

But he that lacks these things is blind and walks feeling the way with his hand, having forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

Therefore, it is necessary that we with more diligence keep the things which we have heard, so that we do not fall.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unfaithfulness, to depart from the living God.

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

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall take them away with the workers of iniquity; and peace shall be upon Israel.

For some are already turned back after Satan.

for Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel, for there is not another; but there are some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of the Christ.