9 Bible Verses about Backsliding
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But Jesus answered him, "No man who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God."
But the Lord is faithful; he will stablish you and guard you from the Evil One.
Guard the glorious trust which has been committed to you by the aid of the Holy Spirit who makes his home in us.
Now unto Him who has power to guard you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, faultless and exultant,
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Backsliding » Guilt and consequences of
But Jesus answered him, "No man who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God."
Backsliding » Exhortations to return from
Backsliding » Is departing from the simplicity of the gospel
But I fear lest, just as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your minds should be seduced from your single-mindedness and purity toward Christ.
O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? You, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded as crucified! Answer me this one question. "When you received the Spirit, was it from doing what the Law commands or from believing the message heard?" Are you so without sense? After beginning with the Spirit, will you now end with the flesh?
If you are being justified by law, you are cut off from Christ; you are fallen away from grace.
Backsliding » Pardon of, promised
Backsliding » Results of » Selfish absorption
Backsliding » Exemplified
Backsliding » Sin of, to be confessed
Backsliding » Pray to be restored from
Backsliding » Warnings against
So then let him who imagines that he is standing so securely beware lest he fall.
Backsliding » Blessedness of those who keep from
Backsliding » Brings its own punishment
Backsliding » Punishment of tempting others to the sin of
"But whoever shall cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung about his neck, and he were drowned in the depths of the sea.
Backsliding » Endeavor to bring back those guilty of
Even if any one should be overtaken in a fault, brothers, you that are spiritual ought, in a gentle spirit, to restore such a one, each one of you looking to himself, lest you too be tempted.
My brothers, if any one of you strays from the truth, and some one brings him back, let him know that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his ways, saves his soul from death, and hides a multitude of sins.
Backsliding » Results of » Divine displeasure
But it is by faith that my Righteous One will live, And if he draws back, my soul takes no pleasure in him.
For if, after having escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them and overpowered, their last state is become worse than their first.
Backsliding » Liable to continue and increase
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Backsliding » Not hopeless
Backsliding » Proneness to
Backsliding » Healing of, promised
Backsliding » Results of » Unfitness for the kingdom
But Jesus answered him, "No man who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God."
I am amazed that you are so soon shifting your ground, and deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ,
Backsliding » God is displeased at
Backsliding » Exemplified » Peter
But he denied it before them all; "I do not know what you mean," he said. Soon afterward he went out into the porch, and another maid saw him, and said to those who were there, "This fellow certainly was with Jesus, the Nazarene!" And again he denied it with an oath, saying, "I never knew the man." read more.
A little later the bystanders came up and said to Peter, "You also are certainly one of them, for your speech betrays you." Then he began to curse and swear, saying, "I never knew the man." Immediately the cock crew!
Backsliding » Exemplified » saul
Backsliding » Results of » Loss of spiritual enthusiasm
Backsliding » The backslider in heart
Backsliding » A haughty spirit leads to
Backsliding » Is leaving the first love
Backsliding » Results of » Religious indifference
Backsliding » Results of » Bondage to forms
Now, however, when you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are beginning to turn back to those weak and beggarly externalities, eager to be in bondage to them again?
Backsliding » What backslidings do
Backsliding » Is turning from God
Backsliding » Hateful to saints
Backsliding » Afflictions sent to heal
Hatred » We should exhibit against » Backsliding
Protection » Withdrawn from the » Backsliding
Topics on Backsliding
Backsliding, Christian Examples
Luke 22:31"Simon, Simon," said the Lord, "behold, Satan has asked to have you all that he might sift you like wheat.
Backsliding, Results
Luke 9:62But Jesus answered him, "No man who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God."