Backsliding

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 →

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 →

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

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

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 →

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.

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?

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

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.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

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

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things: — read the full passage →

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’ — read the full passage →

Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’ — read the full passage →

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

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

Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” — read the full passage →

But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t find it. — 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 →

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

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

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

Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth. — read the full passage →

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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

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.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

For already some have turned aside after Satan.

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

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,— — read the full passage →

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance! — read the full passage →

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him. — read the full passage →

For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. — read the full passage →

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered. — read the full passage →

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart. — read the full passage →

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

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; — read the full passage →

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed. — read the full passage →

of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme. — read the full passage →

Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you — read the full passage →

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love; — read the full passage →

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.” — read the full passage →

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea. — read the full passage →

You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don’t see all things subjected to him, yet. — read the full passage →

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →