9 Bible Verses about Backsliding, Causes

And these are they that received seed among thorns; who hear the word, and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

For the love of money is the root of all evil; through the desire of which, some have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

But he who is wanting in these things is blind, and closes his eyes, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

Therefore, we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest we let them glide away.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in apostatizing from the living God.

But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

For some have already turned aside after Satan.

for Demas has forsaken me, having loved the present age; and he has gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

I am astonished that you are so soon turning away from him that called you into the grace of Christ, to another gospel: which is nothing else than that there are some who trouble you, and are determined to pervert the gospel of the Christ.