5 Bible Verses about Backsliding, Christian Examples

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you my disciples, that he may sift you as wheat:

I wonder that ye are so soon removed from him who called you by the grace of Christ to another gospel: which is not another;

But now that ye know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that ye turn again to the poor weak elements, to which ye desire again to be in bondage as before? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years: so that I am afraid for you, least I have indeed bestowed upon you labour in vain.

It is commonly reported that there is lewdness among you, and such lewdness as is not named even amongst the heathens, that one should have his father's wife. And are ye puffed up, and have not rather grieved? that he who hath committed this fact might be expelled from among you? For I indeed, absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as if I were present, judged him who hath wrought this wickedness: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,read more.
when ye are assembled together with my spirit, by the power, I say, of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, without leaven. For our paschal lamb, even Christ, was slain for us. Wherefore let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavening of sincerity and truth. I wrote to you in an epistle, not to associate with whoremongers: but I did not mean not at all with the whoremongers of this world, or the covetous, or rapacious, or idolaters: since ye must then go out of the world. But now I have written to you, not to associate with him, if any one, that is called a brother, be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious; with such a one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge those that are without? and do not ye judge those that are within? But those who are without, God judgeth: and therefore put away the wicked one from among you.

Thou knowest that all those of Asia are turned from me, of whom is Phygellus and Hermogenes.