9 Bible Verses about Backsliding, Causes

And others are the ones sown among thorns; they are those who hear the word, but the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

For whoever lacks these things is blind and shortsighted, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

Therefore we must pay more careful attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

Take care, brethren, lest there be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

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

For some have already turned aside to follow Satan.

for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ and turning to a different gospel which is really not another gospel; but there are some who are disturbing you, and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.