21 Bible Verses about Backsliding

Jesus responded: No man, who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.

That is why lions from the forest will kill them. Wolves from the desert will tear them to pieces, and leopards will prowl through their towns. If those people go out, they will be torn apart because their sins are numerous and time after time they have turned from God.

The Amalekites and Canaanites are there. You will die in battle. Now that you have turned away from Jehovah, he will not be with you.

Jehovah will lead those who turn away from their crooked ways with the workers of iniquity. Israel will have peace.

But your wrongs have separated you from your God. Your sins have made him hide his face so that he does not even hear you.

Messengers carried letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. The king's order said: Israelites should return to Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. Then he will return to the few of you who escaped from the power of the kings of Assyria.

Return you people of Israel, return to the one whom you have so violently rebelled against.

Go and proclaim this message to the north: 'Come back, unfaithful Israel. It is Jehovah speaking. I will no longer frown on you because I am merciful,' declares Jehovah. 'I will no longer be angry with you.

Return, you disobedient people, proclaims Jehovah. I am your husband. I will take you, one from every city and two from every family, and bring you to Zion.'

Return you backsliding children, and I will forgive you for being unfaithful. See, we have come to you because you are Jehovah our God.

You were running well! Who hindered you that you should not obey the truth?

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds will be lead away from the simplicity and the purity (cleanness) that is toward Christ.

O foolish Galatians, who fascinated (cast a spell over) (beguiled) (influenced) you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was openly presented impaled. I want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law, or by having faith in what you heard? Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now made perfect (mature) in the flesh?

You who seek to be righteous by Law are separated from Christ. You have fallen away from grace.

Ephraim, O Ephraim my dear delightful son! Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him, I certainly still remember him. My heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him, declares Jehovah.

Go and proclaim this message to the north: 'Come back, unfaithful Israel. It is Jehovah speaking. I will no longer frown on you because I am merciful,' declares Jehovah. 'I will no longer be angry with you.

However, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, search for me, and turn from their evil ways, I will hear their prayer from heaven, forgive their sins, and heal their country.

Maybe the nation of Judah will hear about all the disasters that I devise to bring on them, and they will turn from their wicked ways. Then I will forgive their wickedness and their sins.

Woe to the sinful nation, people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who are corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah! They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They have turned away from him.

The faithless in heart will be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from above.

Do something, Jehovah, for the sake of your name, even though our iniquities testify against us. We have been unfaithful (like apostates) and have sinned against you.

My people are determined to turn (apostatize) from me. Even if they call to the Most High, he will by no means exalt them.

But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority. They turned their backs on your law, and murdered your prophets. These prophets gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you. They did much to make you angry.

They have already turned from the way I commanded them to live. They made a statue of a calf for themselves. They have bowed down to it and offered sacrifices to it. They said: Israel, here is your god who brought you out of Egypt.'

Jehovah said to me: Treacherous Judah was more reprehensible than unfaithful Israel.

For Israel behaved stubbornly like a stubborn heifer. Will Jehovah now feed them as a lamb in a large place.

You are aware of our many rebellious acts. Our sins testify against us. Our rebellious acts are with us. We know our iniquities. We rebelled and denied Jehovah. We turned away from our God. We spoke about oppression and revolt. We conceived and uttered lies in our hearts. Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away. Truth has fallen in the street, and honesty cannot come in.

Admit that you have done wrong! You have rebelled against Jehovah your God. You have given yourself to foreign gods under every large tree. You have not obeyed me,' says Jehovah.

Do something, Jehovah, for the sake of your name, even though our iniquities testify against us. We have been unfaithful (like apostates) and have sinned against you. You are Israel's hope, its savior in times of trouble. Why are you like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays only one night? Why are you like someone taken by surprise, like a mighty man who cannot help? You, O Jehovah, are among us. We are called by your name. Do not leave us!

O God, restore us and cause your face to shine (smile on us) (show us favor) that we will be saved.

Restore us, O God of our salvation. Put an end to your anger against us.

Make us come back to you, O Jehovah, and let us be restored. Make our days new again as in the past.

I want to hear what the Lord Jehovah says, because he promises peace to his people, to his godly ones. But they must not go back to their stupidity.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.

Blessed is the man reverencing God. He who hardens his heart will fall into trouble.

You will keep the steadfast mind in perfect peace, because he trusts (hopes) in you. Trust in Jehovah forever, for Jah, Jehovah, is the Rock eternal.

The faithless in heart will be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from above.

Your own wickedness will correct you. Your apostasies (unfaithful ways) will punish you! You should know and see how evil and bitter it is for you when you abandon Jehovah your God! You do not respect (reverence) me, says the Sovereign Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

Whoever leads decent people into evil will fall into his own pit. Innocent people will inherit good things.

He who causes one of my faithful little ones to stumble is in trouble. It would be better for him to end up in the deep sea with a great stone tied to his neck.

Brothers, if someone is caught in any kind of wrongdoing, those of you who are spiritual should set him right. But you must do it in a gentle way. And keep an eye on yourselves, so that you will not be tempted, too.

My brothers, if any among you strays from the truth, and one brings him back, let him know, that he who turns a sinner back from the error of his way will save a person from death, and cover a multitude of sins.

My righteous people will live by faith. If any of them turn back, I will not be pleased with them.

After they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome; the last state is worse with them than the first.

The people of Jerusalem turned away from me without ever returning. They still cling to deceit. They refuse to return.

Do something, Jehovah, for the sake of your name, even though our iniquities testify against us. We have been unfaithful (like apostates) and have sinned against you.

Like your fathers before you, you have turned away from my laws and have not obeyed them. Return to me and I will return to you, said Jehovah of Hosts. But you ask, 'how will we return to you?' I ask you: 'will you rob and defraud God? Of course not, yet you are robbing and defrauding me!' 'How have we robbed and defrauded?' You ask. 'In the matter of tithes and offerings.' A curse is on all of you because the whole nation is cheating me. read more.
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse. Test me, said Jehovah of Hosts, and see if I will open the windows of heaven and pour out showers of blessing upon you until there is no more want.

When he falls, he will not be thrown down headfirst because Jehovah holds on to his hand.

A righteous man falls seven times and rises up again. but the wicked will fall by evil.

My people are determined to turn (apostatize) from me. Even if they call to the Most High, he will by no means exalt them.

A righteous man falls seven times and rises up again. but the wicked will fall by evil.

Return you backsliding children, and I will forgive you for being unfaithful. See, we have come to you because you are Jehovah our God.

I will heal their apostasy! I will love them freely for my anger has turned away from them.

Jesus responded: No man, who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.

I am amazed that you so quickly turned away from the One who called you by the grace of Christ. You turned to different good news.

They were disloyal and treacherous like their ancestors. They were like arrows shot from a defective bow.

When God heard, he became furious. He greatly abhorred Israel.

In front of everybody, he replied: I do not know what you are talking about. When he reached the gate, another saw him and said: This man was with Jesus the Nazarene. Again he denied with an oath: I have no knowledge of the man. read more.
A few moments later, those who were near approached and said to Peter: Indeed, you are one of them, because the way you speak gives you away. Then with curses and oaths he said: I do not know the man! And immediately a rooster crowed.

I am sorry that I made Saul king. He has turned away from me and disobeyed my commands. Samuel was angry. All night long he pleaded with Jehovah.

However I have this against you: you do not love me now as you did at first.

The faithless in heart will be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from above.

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

However I have this against you: you do not love me now as you did at first.

Wickedness and lawlessness will increase. The love of many will grow cold.

Now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and poor fundamental things? Do you want to slave for them all over again?

Your own wickedness will correct you. Your apostasies (unfaithful ways) will punish you! You should know and see how evil and bitter it is for you when you abandon Jehovah your God! You do not respect (reverence) me, says the Sovereign Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

Jehovah was angry with Solomon. This is because his heart turned away from Jehovah, the God of Israel, who had twice come to him in a vision.

I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of unfaithful people. I want no part of it.

I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek me. They will seek me earnestly in their affliction.

I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of unfaithful people. I want no part of it.

If you are disloyal and join with the nations that are still left among you and intermarry with them, Jehovah your God will no longer drive these nations out as you advance. Rather, they will be as dangerous for you as a trap or a pit and as painful as a whip on your back or thorns in your eyes. This will last until none of you are left in this good land that Jehovah your God gave you.