9 Bible Verses about Backsliding, Causes

And others are they that are sown among the thorns; these are they who hear the word, but the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

For the love of money is a root of all evils; which some coveting have strayed away from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many pangs.

But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest haply we let them slip.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

But I have this against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.

For some have already turned aside after Satan.

For Demas forsook me, because he loved the present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

I marvel that ye are so soon turning from him that called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel; which is not another; only there are certain persons who are troubling you, and seeking to change entirely the gospel of Christ.