21 Bible Verses about Backsliding

Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."

Therefore a lion from the forest shall strike them down; a wolf from the desert shall devastate them. A leopard is watching their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.

For there the Amalekites and the Canaanites are facing you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned back from following the LORD, the LORD will not be with you."

But those who turn aside to their crooked ways the LORD will lead away with evildoers! Peace be upon Israel!

but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, "O people of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.

Turn to him from whom people have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, "'Return, faithless Israel, declares the LORD. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the LORD; I will not be angry forever.

Return, O faithless children, declares the LORD; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

"Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to you, for you are the LORD our God.

You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the LORD.

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, "'Return, faithless Israel, declares the LORD. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the LORD; I will not be angry forever.

if my people who are called by my name 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 heal their land.

It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the disaster that I intend to do to them, so that every one may turn from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin."

Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.

The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.

"Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O LORD, for your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all.

"Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.

They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!'"

And the LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the LORD now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?

For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities: transgressing, and denying the LORD, and turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words. Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.

Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the LORD your God and scattered your favors among foreigners under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, declares the LORD.

"Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O LORD, for your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you. O you hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why should you be like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night? Why should you be like a man confused, like a mighty warrior who cannot save? Yet you, O LORD, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; do not leave us."

Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved!

Restore us again, O God of our salvation, and put away your indignation toward us!

Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old--

Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.

Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

Blessed is the one who fears the LORD always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity.

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORDGOD is an everlasting rock.

The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.

Your evil will chastise you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the LORD your God; the fear of me is not in you, declares the Lord GOD of hosts.

Whoever misleads the upright into an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance.

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Brothers,if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.

"Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O LORD, for your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say, 'How shall we return?' Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?'In your tithes and contributions. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. read more.
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong, for the LORDupholds his hand.

for the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.

My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all.

for the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.

"Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to you, for you are the LORD our God.

I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.

Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel--

but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.

When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.

But he denied it before them all, saying, "I do not know what you mean." And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, "This man was with Jesus of Nazareth." And again he denied it with an oath: "I do not know the man." read more.
After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, "Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you." Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, "I do not know the man." And immediately the rooster crowed.

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

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

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

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

Your evil will chastise you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the LORD your God; the fear of me is not in you, declares the Lord GOD of hosts.

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

I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me.

I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you, know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the LORD your God has given you.