21 Bible Verses about Backsliding
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Turn back, ye sons having turned away, says Jehovah; for I was lord over you: and I took you one from a city and two from a family, and I brought you to Zion.
He drawing back the heart shall be filled from his ways: and a good man from above him.
Turn back, ye sons turning away; I will heal your turnings-away. Behold, we came to thee; for thou Jehovah our God.
And Jesus said to him, No one putting his hand upon the plough, and looking back, is adapted to the kingdom of God.
But the Lord is faithful, who supports you, and will watch from the evil.
And to him able to watch yourselves from falling, and to place blameless before his glory with transport of joy,
Thy wickedness shall correct thee, and thy turnings back shall convict thee: and know thou and see that evil and bitter thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, and that my fear was not to thee, says the Lord Jehovah of armies.
I will heal their turning away, I loved them largely: for mine anger turned away from him.
How long wilt thou wander about, O daughter turning away? for Jehovah created a new thing in the earth: A female shall go about a male.
Go and call these words to the north, and say, Turn back, O Israel, turning away, says Jehovah; I will not cause my face to fall upon you: for I am merciful, says Jehovah, I will not guard forever.
For as a stubborn heifer Israel was stubborn: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide place.
And I shall see for all the causes that Israel turning away committed adultery, I sent her away and I shall give a writing of her cutting off to her; and her faithless sister Judah was not afraid, and she will go and commit fornication, she also.
And Jehovah will say to me, Israel turning away justified her soul above faithless Judah.
If our iniquities answered against us, O Jehovah, do for sake of thy name: for our turnings back were many; we sinned against thee.
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Backsliding » Guilt and consequences of
And Jesus said to him, No one putting his hand upon the plough, and looking back, is adapted to the kingdom of God.
For this, a lion from the forest struck them, a wolf of the deserts will destroy them, the panther watched over their cities: every one going forth from thence shall be torn in pieces; for their transgressions were multiplied, their turnings away were strong.
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye fell by the sword: for ye turned back from after Jehovah, and Jehovah will not be with you.
And those turning to their winding ways, Jehovah will cause them to go with those working iniquity: peace upon Israel.
But your iniquities were separating between you and between your God, and your sins caused to hide;the face from you from hearing.
Backsliding » Exhortations to return from
And the runners will go with the letters from the hand of the king and his chiefs in all Israel and Judah, and according to the command of the king, saying, Ye sons of Israel, turn back to Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaak and Israel, and he will turn back to the escaping being left to you from the hand of the king of Assur.
Turn ye back to him against whom the sons of Israel made a deep turning away.
Go and call these words to the north, and say, Turn back, O Israel, turning away, says Jehovah; I will not cause my face to fall upon you: for I am merciful, says Jehovah, I will not guard forever.
Turn back, ye sons having turned away, says Jehovah; for I was lord over you: and I took you one from a city and two from a family, and I brought you to Zion.
Turn back, ye sons turning away; I will heal your turnings-away. Behold, we came to thee; for thou Jehovah our God.
Backsliding » Is departing from the simplicity of the gospel
And I am afraid lest, as the serpent completely deceived Eve in his craft, so your thoughts be corrupted from the simplicity which in Christ.
O Unwise Galatians, who has cast a spell upon you, not to obey the truth, to whom before the eyes Jesus Christ was written beforehand, crucified in you? This only wish I to learn from you, Received ye the Spirit from the works of the law, or from the hearing of faith?. Are ye so unwise? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now completed in the flesh?
Ye were neglected from Christ, whoever are justified in the law; ye have fallen from grace.
Backsliding » Pardon of, promised
Is Ephraim a precious son to me? if a child of delights? for whenever my speaking against him, remembering, I shall remember him yet; for this the bowels were put in motion to me compassionating, I will compassionate him, says Jehovah.
Go and call these words to the north, and say, Turn back, O Israel, turning away, says Jehovah; I will not cause my face to fall upon you: for I am merciful, says Jehovah, I will not guard forever.
And if my people which my name was called upon them shall be humbled and pray and seek my face, and turn back from their evil ways; and I will hear from the heavens and forgive to their sin, and I will heal their land.
Perhaps the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them; so that they will turn back each from his evil way; and I pardoned their iniquity and their sin.
Backsliding » Results of » Selfish absorption
Wo! sinful nation, a people heavy with sin, a seed doing evil, sons acting wickedly; they forsook Jehovah; they despised the holy one of Israel; they separated themselves backward.
He drawing back the heart shall be filled from his ways: and a good man from above him.
If our iniquities answered against us, O Jehovah, do for sake of thy name: for our turnings back were many; we sinned against thee.
And my people are bent to turning away from me: and they will call together to the Most High; he will not exalt them.
Backsliding » Exemplified
And they will be perverse, and they will rebel against thee, and they will cast thy law behind their back, and they killed thy prophets who testified against them to turn them back to thee, and they will make great reproaches.
For they turned aside quickly from the way which I commanded them: they made for them a molten calf, and worship to it, and will sacrifice to it, and will say, These thy gods, Israel, which raised thee up out of the land of Egypt
And Jehovah will say to me, Israel turning away justified her soul above faithless Judah.
For as a stubborn heifer Israel was stubborn: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide place.
Backsliding » Sin of, to be confessed
For our transgressions were multiplied before thee, and our sins answered against us: for our transgressions are with us, and our iniquities we knew them. Transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing from after our God, speaking violence and apostasy, they conceived and muttered from the heart words of falsehood. And judgment was turned away behind, and justice shall stand from far off: for truth fainted in the street, and right will not be able to come in.
Only know thine iniquity that thou didst transgress against Jehovah thy God, and thou wilt scatter thy ways to strangers under every green tree, and to my voice ye heard not, says Jehovah.
If our iniquities answered against us, O Jehovah, do for sake of thy name: for our turnings back were many; we sinned against thee. The hope of Israel, saving him in time of straits, wherefore wilt thou be as a sojourner in the earth, and as a traveler turning aside to lodge? Wherefore shalt thou be as a man struck dumb? as a strong one he shall not be able to save? and thou in the midst of us, O Jehovah, and thy name was called upon us; thou wilt not leave us.
Backsliding » Pray to be restored from
Turn us back, O Jehovah, to thee, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Backsliding » Warnings against
I will hear what God Jehovah shall speak: for he will speak peace to his people, and to his godly ones: and they shall not turn back to folly.
Backsliding » Blessedness of those who keep from
The mind placed upon thee thou wilt form peace, peace, because he trusted in thee. Trust ye in Jehovah even to eternity, for in Jah Jehovah is the rock of ages.
Backsliding » Brings its own punishment
He drawing back the heart shall be filled from his ways: and a good man from above him.
Thy wickedness shall correct thee, and thy turnings back shall convict thee: and know thou and see that evil and bitter thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, and that my fear was not to thee, says the Lord Jehovah of armies.
Backsliding » Punishment of tempting others to the sin of
He causing the upright to wander in an evil way, into his pit shall he fall: and the good shall inherit complete things.
And whoever should offend one of these little ones believing in me, it is profitable for him that the millstone of an ass be hung upon his neck, and he be sunk in the midst of the sea.
Backsliding » Endeavor to bring back those guilty of
Brethren, if a man be taken in any fault, ye the spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; observing thyself narrowly, lest thou also be tempted.
Brethren, if any among you be led astray from the truth, and any should turn him back; Let him know, that he having turned the sinful from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
Backsliding » Results of » Divine displeasure
And the just one shall live by faith; but if he draw down, my soul is not contented in him.
For if having escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and again entangling with these, they be conquered, the last things have been to them worse than the first.
Backsliding » Liable to continue and increase
Wherefore did this people of Jerusalem turn away a continual turning away? they laid hold upon deceit; they refused to turn back.
If our iniquities answered against us, O Jehovah, do for sake of thy name: for our turnings back were many; we sinned against thee.
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For from the days of your fathers ye departed from my laws, and ye watched not. Turn back to me and I will turn back to you, said Jehovah of armies. And ye said, In what shall we turn back? Will man defraud God? For ye defraud me. And ye said, In what did we defraud thee? The tenths and the offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: and ye defrauded me, the nation all of it read more.
Bring ye all the tenths to the house of treasure, and food shall be in my house, and try me now in this, said Jehovah of armies, if I will not open to you the lattices of the heavens, and empty out to you a blessing, even is it not a sufficiency.
Backsliding » Not hopeless
If he shall fall he shall not be prostrated, for Jehovah will uphold his hand.
For the just one shall fall seven times, and rise: and the unjust shall be weak in evil
Backsliding » Proneness to
And my people are bent to turning away from me: and they will call together to the Most High; he will not exalt them.
For the just one shall fall seven times, and rise: and the unjust shall be weak in evil
Backsliding » Healing of, promised
Turn back, ye sons turning away; I will heal your turnings-away. Behold, we came to thee; for thou Jehovah our God.
I will heal their turning away, I loved them largely: for mine anger turned away from him.
Backsliding » Results of » Unfitness for the kingdom
And Jesus said to him, No one putting his hand upon the plough, and looking back, is adapted to the kingdom of God.
I wonder that so quickly are ye transferred from him having called you by the grace of Christ to another good news:
Backsliding » God is displeased at
And they will draw back, and they will transgress as their fathers: they were turned as a bow of deceit
God heard and he will overflow, and he will greatly contemn in Israel.
Backsliding » Exemplified » Peter
And he denied before all, saying, I know not what thou sayest. And he having gone out into the gate, another saw him, and she says to them there, This also was with Jesus the Nazarite. And again he denied with an oath, That I know not the man. read more.
And a little after, those standing, having come near, said to Peter, Truly thou also art of them; for also thy speech makes thee manifest. Then began he to anathematize, and to swear, That I know not the man: and quickly the cock uttered a sound.
Backsliding » Exemplified » saul
I lamented that I made Saul for king, for he turned back from after me, and my words he set not up. And it will kindle to Samuel, and he will cry to Jehovah all the night
Backsliding » Results of » Loss of spiritual enthusiasm
Backsliding » The backslider in heart
He drawing back the heart shall be filled from his ways: and a good man from above him.
Backsliding » A haughty spirit leads to
Backsliding » Is leaving the first love
Backsliding » Results of » Religious indifference
Backsliding » Results of » Bondage to forms
And now, having known God, and rather known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and poor elements, to which again ye wish anew to be in a servile condition
Backsliding » What backslidings do
Thy wickedness shall correct thee, and thy turnings back shall convict thee: and know thou and see that evil and bitter thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, and that my fear was not to thee, says the Lord Jehovah of armies.
Backsliding » Is turning from God
And Jehovah will be angry with Solomon, for his heart was turned from Jehovah the God of Israel, being seen to him twice.
Backsliding » Hateful to saints
I will not set a word of Belial before mine eyes: I hated him doing transgressions; he shall not cleave to me.
Backsliding » Afflictions sent to heal
I will go and turn back to my place, even till when they shall be guilty, and they sought my face: in straitness to them they will turn to me.
Hatred » We should exhibit against » Backsliding
I will not set a word of Belial before mine eyes: I hated him doing transgressions; he shall not cleave to me.
Protection » Withdrawn from the » Backsliding
For if turning back, ye shall turn back and cleave to the remainder of these nations, these being left with you, and marry with them, and go in to them, and they in to you, Knowing, ye shall know that Jehovah your God will not add to drive out these nations from before you: and they, were to you for a snare and for a noose, and for a scourge in your sides, and for thorns in your eyes, till your destruction from this good land which Jehovah your God gave to you.
Topics on Backsliding
Backsliding, Causes
Exodus 17:7And he will call the name of the place, Temptation, and Strife, for the contention of the sons of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah in the midst of us or not?
Backsliding, Christian Examples
Genesis 19:1-22And two messengers shall come to Sodom in the evening; and Lot will sit in the gate of Sodom; and Lot will see, and will rise up to meet them, and will bow himself with the face to the earth.
Backsliding, Israel Exanples
Exodus 17:1-7And all the assembly of the sons of Israel will remove from the desert of Sin, according to their removings by the mouth of Jehovah; and they will encamp in Rephidim; and no water for the people to drink.
Backsliding, Results
Psalm 78:56-59And they will tempt and embitter God the Most High, and they watched not his testimonies.
Restoration After Backsliding
Joel 2:12-13And also now, says Jehovah, Turn back even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping and with wailing.