14 Bible Verses about Backsliding, Causes

And he will call the name of the place, Temptation, and Strife, for the contention of the sons of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah in the midst of us or not?

Watch to thyself lest thou shalt forget Jehovah thy God, not watching his commands and his judgments and his laws which I command thee this day: Lest thou shalt eat and thou wert satisfied, and thou wilt build good houses and thou dwelt; And thy cattle and thy sheep shall multiply, and thy silver and thy gold shall multiply to thee, and all which is in thee shall multiply;read more.
And thy heart was lifted up and thou didst forget Jehovah thy God bringing thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of servants;

And they will desire a desire in the desert, and they will tempt God in the waste.

Pride before a breaking, and a spirit lifted up before a fall

And these are they sown in thorns; these are they hearing the word. And the cares of this time, and the deceit of riches, and eager desires about remaining things, coming in, choke the word, and it is unfruitful.

For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.

For in whom these are not present, he is blind, being affected with shortness of sight, having taken 2Peter 1:forgetfulness of the cleansing formerly of his sins.

For this ought we to hold above measure to the things heard, lest we slip away.

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in removing away from the living God.

But I have against thee, for thou hest let go thy first love.

And those turning to their winding ways, Jehovah will cause them to go with those working iniquity: peace upon Israel.

For already have some turned aside after Satan.

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved the time now, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

I wonder that so quickly are ye transferred from him having called you by the grace of Christ to another good news: Which is not another; except some are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of Christ.