9 Bible Verses about Backsliding, Causes

Another set are those who are sown 'among thorns'; they listen to the word, but the worries of the world and the delight of being rich and all the other passions come in to choke the word; so it proves unfruitful.

For love of money is the root of all mischief; it is by aspiring to be rich that certain individuals have gone astray from the faith and found themselves pierced with many a pang of remorse.

whereas he who has not these by him is blind, shortsighted, oblivious that he has been cleansed from his erstwhile sins.

We must therefore pay closer attention to what we have heard, in case we drift away.

Brothers, take care in case there is a wicked, unbelieving heart in any of you, moving you to apostatize from the living God.

But I have this against you: you have given up loving one another as you did at first.

As it is, some widows have already turned after Satan. ??16 Any believer, man or woman, who has widowed relatives, must give them relief; the church is not to be burdened with them; she has to relieve the widows who really need relief.

for Demas, in his love for this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is off to Gaul, Titus to Dalmatia,

I am astonished you are hastily shifting like this, deserting Him who called you by Christ's grace and going over to another gospel. It simply means that certain individuals are unsettling you; they want to distort the gospel of Christ.