16 Bible Verses about Backsliding

But Jesus said to him, No man, having put his hand to a plow, and looking to things behind, is fit for the kingdom of God.

Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them; a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them; a leopard shall watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are m

For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and ye shall fall by the sword. Because ye have turned back from following LORD, therefore LORD will not be with you.

But as for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, LORD will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you so that he will not hear.

So the posts went with the letters from the king and his rulers throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye sons of Israel, turn again to LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, th

Turn ye to him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O sons of Israel.

Ye were running well. Who hindered you, not to obey the truth?

But I fear lest somehow, as the serpent enticed Eve by his craftiness, so your thoughts might be corrupted from the simplicity in the Christ.

O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was earlier described among you, crucified? I only want to learn this from you. Did ye receive the Spirit from works of law, or from a listening ear of faith? Are ye so foolish, having begun in Spirit, are ye now made perfect by flesh?

Ye were discharged from the Christ, ye who are made righteous by law. Ye have fallen from grace.

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says LORD.

if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them, that they may return every man from his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, sons who deal corruptly! They have forsaken LORD. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They have gone away backward.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man from his own fruits.

Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O LORD. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against thee.

And my people are bent on backsliding from me. Though they call them to [him who is] on high, none at all will exalt [him].

Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and killed thy prophets who testified against them to turn them again to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made for them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of th

For Israel has behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Now LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them: transgressing and denying LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off. For truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.

Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O LORD. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against thee. O thou hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should thou be as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to tarry for a night? Why should thou be as a man frightened, as a mighty man who cannot save? Yet thou, O LORD, are in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name. Do not leave us.

Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine indignation toward us to cease.

Turn thou us back to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned back. Renew our days as of old.

I will hear what God, LORD, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, and to his sanctified. But let them not turn again to folly.

Therefore let him who seems to stand take heed lest he fall.

Happy is the man who fears always, but he who hardens his heart shall fall into mischief.

Thou will keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee], because he trusts in thee. Trust ye in LORD forever, for in LORD, [even] LORD, is an everlasting rock.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man from his own fruits.

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou have forsaken LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, says the Lord, L

He who causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit. But the perfect shall inherit good.

But whoever may cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it is advantageous for him that a donkey-powered millstone were hanged on his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

And brothers, if a man is overtaken in some transgression, ye the spiritual, restore such in a spirit of meekness, looking to thyself lest thou also be tempted.

Brothers, if any man among you may be led astray from the truth, and some man converts him, let him know that he who converts a sinful man from his wandering way, will save a soul from death, and will hide a multitude of sins.

But the righteous man will live from faith, and if he should withdraw, my soul is not pleased with him.

For if, having escaped the defilements of the world by knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and, having been again entangled in these, they are overcome, the last things have become worse for them than the first.

Why then has this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold firm deceit. They refuse to return.

Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O LORD. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against thee.

From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says LORD of hosts. But ye say, How shall we return? Will a man rob God? Yet ye rob me. But ye say, How have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with the curse, for ye rob me, even this whole nation. read more.
Bring ye the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now with this, says LORD of hosts, if I will not open to you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be

Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for LORD upholds him with his hand.

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

And my people are bent on backsliding from me. Though they call them to [him who is] on high, none at all will exalt [him].

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

I will heal their backsliding. I will love them freely. For my anger is turned away from him.

But Jesus said to him, No man, having put his hand to a plow, and looking to things behind, is fit for the kingdom of God.

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him who called you in the grace of Christ to another good-news,

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

When God heard, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,

But he denied before them all, saying, I do not know what thou say. And when he was gone out into the porch, another woman saw him, and says to them there, This man was also with Jesus the Nazarene. And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man. read more.
And after a little while those who stood, having approached, said to Peter, Surely thou also are of them, for thy accent even makes thee apparent. Then he began to curse vehemently and to swear, I do not know the man. And straightaway a cock sounded.

I regret that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. And Samuel was angry, and he cried out to LORD all night.

Nevertheless, I have against thee because thou left thy first love.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man from his own fruits.

Pride [is] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Nevertheless, I have against thee because thou left thy first love.

And because of the increased lawlessness, the love of the many will become cold.

but now knowing God, but rather being known by God, how is it ye turn again to the weak and destitute elements to which ye desire again to be in bondage anew?

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou have forsaken LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, says the Lord, L

And LORD was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned away from LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,

I will set no base thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who turn aside. It shall not cleave to me.

I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.

I will set no base thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who turn aside. It shall not cleave to me.

Else if ye do at all go back, and cling to the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you, know for a certainty that LORD your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight, but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good