9 Bible Verses about Backsliding, Causes

and others are those who are sown among the thorns; they are those hearing the word, and the cares of the age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and desires concerning other things coming into them, choke out the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

For the love of money is a root of all evils: which some seeking after have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

for he unto whom these things are not present is blind, not seeing afar off, having received the forgetfulness of his purgation from his old sins.

Therefore it behooves us the more earnestly to give heed to the things which we have heard, lest at some time we may leak out.

See, brethren, lest at some time there shall be in some one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in turning away from the living God:

But I have something against you, because you have left your first love.

for already certain ones have turned away after Satan.

For Demas has left me, having loved the present age, and is gone into Thessalonica; Crescents into Galatia, Titus into Dalmatia.

I am astonished that you are so quickly removed from him who called you in the grace of Christ into another gospel; which is not another: but there are certain ones who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the gospel of Christ.