Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
Backslider
General references
Bible References
Backslider
Proverbs 1:32
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Jeremiah 2:19
Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.
Jeremiah 8:5
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Jeremiah 17:5
Thus says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
Hosea 4:16
For Israel slides back like a stubborn heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in an open pasture.
Zephaniah 1:6
And those that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for him.
Hebrews 3:12
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
2 Peter 2:20
For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
A good
Proverbs 14:10
The heart knows its own bitterness; and a stranger does not share its joy.
John 4:14
But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
Galatians 6:4
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
General references
Psalm 109:17
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
Proverbs 1:31
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.