5 Bible Verses about Backsliding, Results
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Yet, for all this they tempted and displeased the most high God, and kept not his covenant: But turned their backs, and fell away like their forefathers, starting aside like a broken bow. And so they grieved him with their high places, and provoked him with their images.read more.
When God heard this, he was wroth, and took sore displeasure at Israel,
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye will fall upon the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, and therefore the LORD will not be with you." But they were blinded to go up into the hilltop: Neverthelater, the ark of the covenant of the LORD and Moses departed not out of the host. Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, came down and smote them and hewed them: even unto Hormah.
Wherefore then is this people and Jerusalem gone so far back, that they turn not again? They are ever the longer, the more obstinate, and will not be converted. For I have looked, and considered: but there is no man that speaketh a good word. There is no man that taketh repentance for his sin, that will so much as say, 'Wherefore have I done this?' But every man, as soon as he is turned back, runneth forth still, like a wild horse in a battle.
But your misdeeds have separated you from your God, and your sins hide his face from you, that he heareth you not.
Jesus said unto him, "No man that putteth his hand to the plough, and looketh back, is apt to the kingdom of God."