14 Bible Verses about Backsliding, Causes
Most Relevant Verses
And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the sons of Israel, and because they challenged LORD, saying, Is LORD among us, or not?
Beware lest thou forget LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command thee this day. Lest, when thou have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelt in it, and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou have is multiplied,read more.
then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget LORD thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,
but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and challenged God in the desert.
And these are those being sown in the thorns, who hear the word, and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of wealth, and the cravings about other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
For the love of money is a root of all the evils, of which some aspiring have wandered from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
For he in whom these things are not present is blind, being near-sighted, having deliberately forgotten the purification of his former sins.
Because of this we ought to give more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest we might slip away.
Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God.
But as for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, LORD will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.
for Demas forsook me having loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him who called you in the grace of Christ to another good-news, which is not another, except there are some who confuse you, and who want to pervert the good-news of the Christ.
