Backslider

From his ways is the backslider in heart filled, And a good man--from his fruits.

Turn back, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease. --Behold us, we have come to Thee, For Thou <FI>art<Fi> Jehovah our God.

for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first, — read the full passage →

and `the righteous by faith shall live,' and `if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,' — read the full passage →

`But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave! — read the full passage →

and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'

I heal their backsliding, I love them freely, For turned back hath Mine anger from him.

and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I--I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

Surely our iniquities have testified against us, O Jehovah, work for Thy name's sake, For many have been our backslidings, Against Thee we have sinned.

for <FI>it is<Fi> impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

As a dog hath returned to its vomit, A fool is repeating his folly.

And My people are hanging in suspense, about My returning, And unto the Most High they do call, Together they exalt not.

and now, having known God--and rather being known by God--how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem Turned back--a perpetual backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, They have refused to turn back.

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

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

For we--wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth--no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice, — read the full passage →

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back, — read the full passage →

For as a refractory heifer hath Israel turned aside, Now doth Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.

Go, and thou hast proclaimed these words toward the north, and hast said, Turn back, O backsliding Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah! I cause not Mine anger to fall upon you, For I <FI>am<Fi> kind, an affirmation of Jehovah, I watch not to the age.

Turn back, O backsliding sons, An affirmation of Jehovah. For I have ruled over you, And taken you one of a city, and two of a family, And have brought you to Zion,

Instruct thee doth thy wickedness, And thy backslidings reprove thee, Know and see that an evil and a bitter thing <FI>Is<Fi> thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, And My fear not being on thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

O God, cause us to turn back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.

For the iniquity of his dishonest gain, I have been wroth, and I smite him, Hiding--and am wroth, And he goeth on turning back in the way of his heart. — read the full passage →

Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.

Ah, sinning nation, a people heavy <FI>with<Fi> iniquity, A seed of evil doers, sons--corrupters! They have forsaken Jehovah, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have gone away backward.

And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, According to all the abominations That the wicked hath done, he doth--thus he liveth, All his righteousnesses that he hath done are not remembered, For his trespass that he hath trespassed, And for his sin that he hath sinned, For them he doth die.

if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned;

Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.

A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me. — read the full passage →

When he falleth, he is not cast down, For Jehovah is sustaining his hand.

if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

`But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave!

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> always to pray, and not to faint,

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

Till when dost thou withdraw thyself, O backsliding daughter? For Jehovah hath prepared a new thing in the land, Woman doth compass man.

I hear what God Jehovah speaketh, For He speaketh peace unto His people, And unto His saints, and they turn not back to folly.

Ye were running well; who did hinder you--not to obey the truth?

And its land is full of silver and gold, And there is no end to its treasures, And its land is full of horses, And there is no end to its chariots,

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth--

remember, then, whence thou hast fallen, and reform, and the first works do; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will remove thy lamp-stand from its place--if thou mayest not reform;

if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us; — read the full passage →

for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,

The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,

not of works, that no one may boast;

He said, `I <FI>am<Fi> a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.'

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

`And those upon the rock: They who, when they may hear, with joy do receive the word, and these have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

but whoever may speak evil in regard to the Holy Spirit hath not forgiveness--to the age, but is in danger of age-during judgment;'

For seven <FI>times<Fi> doth the righteous fall and rise, And the wicked stumble in evil.

And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand, — read the full passage →

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

in meekness instructing those opposing--if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth, — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; — read the full passage →

and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'

And the Lord said, `Simon, Simon, lo, the Adversary did ask you for himself to sift as the wheat, — read the full passage →

and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold;

And have given to them a heart to know Me, For I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, And they have been to Me for a people, And I am to them for God, For they turned back unto Me with all their heart.

Therefore, thus said Jehovah: If thou turnest back, then I bring thee back, Before Me thou dost stand, And if thou bringest out the precious from the vile, As My mouth thou art! They--they turn back unto thee, And thou dost not turn back unto them.

And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah, Do they fall, and not rise? Doth he turn back, and not return? — read the full passage →

Go, and thou hast proclaimed these words toward the north, and hast said, Turn back, O backsliding Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah! I cause not Mine anger to fall upon you, For I <FI>am<Fi> kind, an affirmation of Jehovah, I watch not to the age. — read the full passage →

For our transgressions have been multiplied before Thee, And our sins have testified against us, For our transgressions <FI>are<Fi> with us, And our iniquities--we have known them. — read the full passage →

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest it,

There is a way right before a man, And its latter end--ways of death.

A highway of the upright <FI>is<Fi> , `Turn from evil,' Whoso is preserving his soul is watching his way.

Turn back <FI>to<Fi> us, O God of our salvation, And make void Thine anger with us. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah sheweth Himself angry with Solomon, for his heart hath turned aside from Jehovah, God of Israel, who had appeared unto him twice,

`The beast that thou didst see: it was, and it is not; and it is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go away to destruction, and wonder shall those dwelling upon the earth, whose names have not been written upon the scroll of the life from the foundation of the world, beholding the beast that was, and is not, although it is.

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

for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged <FI>it<Fi> , to turn back from the holy command delivered to them,

and having fallen away, again to renew <FI>them<Fi> to reformation, having crucified again to themselves the Son of God, and exposed to public shame.

Because of this it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside, — read the full passage →

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

The pattern hold thou of sound words, which from me thou didst hear, in faith and love that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus;

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that <FI>is<Fi> in the Christ;

so that he who is thinking to stand--let him observe, lest he fall.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

From this <FI>time<Fi> many of his disciples went away backward, and were no more walking with him,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'

`And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray;

Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.

I go--I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do seek Me speedily!'

Therefore smitten them hath a lion out of the forest, A wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, A leopard is watching over their cities, Every one who is going out of them is torn, For many have been their transgressions, Mighty have been their backslidings.

But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you--from hearing.

For thus said the Lord Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel: `In returning and rest ye are saved, In keeping quiet and in confidence is your might, And ye have not been willing.

As to those turning <FI>to<Fi> their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!

and thou hast given the money for any thing which thy soul desireth, for oxen, and for sheep, and for wine, and for strong drink, and for any thing which thy soul asketh, and thou hast eaten there before Jehovah thy God, and thou hast rejoiced, thou and thy house.

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →