5 Bible Verses about Backsliding, Christian Examples

"Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked for you, to sift you as the wheat;

I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from Him Who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different Gospel,

but, after having known God, or rather having been known by God, how are ye turning back again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which ye desire to be in bondage again? Ye are scrupulously observing days, and months, and seasons, and years! I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have toiled for you in vain.

Actually there is reported among you fornication, and such fornication as exists not even among the gentiles, that one of you should have his father's wife! And ye have become puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who did this deed might be taken away from you. For I, verily, being absent in the body, but present in the Spirit, have already, as if present, judged him who so wrought this;read more.
in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover was sacrificed, 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 wrote to you, in my letter, not to keep company with fornicators; not at all meaning, with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or idolaters; since ye ought, in that event, to go out of the world; but, as it is, I wrote not to keep company, if anyone, called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner??ith such a one, not even to eat. For what have I to do with judging those who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within? But those who are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.

You know this, that all in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.