Backslider

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. “Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. — read the full passage →

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” — read the full passage →

But I have this against you, that you left your first love. — read the full passage →

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”

“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.

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.

Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our rebellions are many; we have sinned against you.

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit, they refuse to return.

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

He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, — read the full passage →

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, — read the full passage →

For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.

“Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

“Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him; I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding 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 to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.

If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

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

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

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

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to 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 one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

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

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you 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 defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

not of works, that no one would boast.

He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

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

but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation.”

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

I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth, — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat, — read the full passage →

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

Therefore thus says Yahweh, If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: they shall return to you, but you shall not return to them.

“Moreover you shall tell them, ‘Thus says Yahweh: “‘Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return? — read the full passage →

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever. — read the full passage →

For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them: — read the full passage →

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease. — read the full passage →

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

The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. — read the full passage →

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away. — read the full passage →

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.

Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

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 there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their backsliding is increased.

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

For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →