14 Bible Verses about Backsliding, Causes

and he calleth the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the 'strife' of the sons of Israel, and because of their 'trying' Jehovah, saying, 'Is Jehovah in our midst or not?'

'Take heed to thyself, lest thou forget Jehovah thy God so as not to keep His commands, and His judgments, and His statutes which I am commanding thee to-day; lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited; and thy herd and thy flock be multiplied, and silver and gold be multiplied to thee; and all that is thine be multiplied:read more.
'And thy heart hath been high, and thou hast forgotten Jehovah thy God (who is bringing thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;

And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.

Before destruction is pride, And before stumbling -- a haughty spirit.'

'And these are they who toward the thorns are sown: these are they who are hearing the word, and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins;

Because of this it behoveth us more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside,

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

'But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave!

As to those turning to their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!

for already certain did turn aside after the Adversary.

for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,

I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news; that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;