9 Bible Verses about Backsliding, Causes

It is different with those sown among the thorns. They are people who listen to the message, but the worries of the time and the pleasure of being rich and passions for other things creep in and choke the message out and it yields nothing.

For love of money is the root of all the evils, and in their eagerness to get rich, some men wander away from the faith and pierce themselves to the heart with many a pang.

For whoever lacks these qualities is blind or near-sighted, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his former sins.

This is why we must give the very closest attention to the message we have heard, to keep from ever losing our hold upon it.

See to it, my brothers, that no one of you has a wicked, unbelieving heart, that turns away from the ever-living God,

But I hold it against you that you do not love as you did at first.

For some widows have already turned aside to follow Satan.

for Demas has deserted me for love of the present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the mercy of Christ, to some different good news??7 not that there is any other, only that there are some people who are trying to unsettle you and want to turn the good news of the Christ around.