5 Bible Verses about Backsliding, Christian Examples

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, lo! Satan hath earnestly sought you, that he might sift you as wheat:

I marvel that ye are so quickly departed from him that called you, by the grace of Christ into another gospel

But now after having known God, or rather being known of God, how turn ye back again to those weak and beggarly elements, to which again a second time ye desire to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid for you, lest haply I have bestowed on you labour in vain.

IT is generally reported that there is whoredom among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. And ye are puffed up, though ought ye not rather to be grieved? that he who hath done this deed might be plucked from the midst of you. For I indeed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as present, passed judgment on him who hath so done this thing;read more.
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ye being assembled together and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such a one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorying is not good: know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, as ye are unleavened. For our passover hath been sacrificed for us, even Christ. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. I have written unto you in an epistle that you should not associate with fornicators. Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters: for then must ye indeed go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to associate with him, if any man, professing to be a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one not even to eat. For what call have I to judge those who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within [the church]? But those who are without God judgeth. Put then away that wicked man from among yourselves.

Knowest thou this, that all those of Asia have deserted me? among whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.