14 Bible Verses about Backsliding, Causes

He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites complained, and because they tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

“Be careful that you don’t forget the Lord your God by failing to keep His command—the ordinances and statutes—I am giving you today. When you eat and are full, and build beautiful houses to live in, and your herds and flocks grow large, and your silver and gold multiply, and everything else you have increases, read more.
be careful that your heart doesn’t become proud and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

They were seized with craving in the wilderness
and tested God in the desert.

Pride comes before destruction,
and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

Others are sown among thorns; these are the ones who hear the word, but the worries of this age, the seduction of wealth, 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 kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.

The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

We must, therefore, pay even more attention to what we have heard, so that we will not drift away.

Watch out, brothers, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God.

But I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.

But as for those who turn aside to crooked ways,
the Lord will banish them with the evildoers.

Peace be with Israel.

For some have already turned away to follow Satan.

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

I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from Him who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are troubling you and want to change the good news about the Messiah.