Backslider

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God.

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. — read the full passage →

Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. — read the full passage →

And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

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

O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, — read the full passage →

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

And he said, A certain man had two sons: — read the full passage →

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, — read the full passage →

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; — read the full passage →

For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever.

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.

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

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. — read the full passage →

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. — read the full passage →

Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

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

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.

I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. — read the full passage →

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

Not of works, lest any man should boast.

He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. — read the full passage →

And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: — read the full passage →

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.

Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? — read the full passage →

Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever. — read the full passage →

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; — read the full passage →

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. — read the full passage →

And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,

The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. — read the full passage →

For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. — read the full passage →

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: — read the full passage →

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

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

For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →