Backsliding

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good manshall be satisfiedfrom himself.

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first. — read the full passage →

For as touching 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 unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name’s sake, O Jehovah; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

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

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

And my people are bent on backsliding from me: though they call them to him that is on high, none at all will exalt him.

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

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

But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him. — read the full passage →

But I have this against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love. — read the full passage →

For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be reprobate.

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 will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah. — read the full passage →

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

but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?

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

Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

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

O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. — read the full passage →

My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him; — read the full passage →

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

To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, he that walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks: — read the full passage →

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

For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.

The unclean spirit when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and finding none, he saith, I will turn back unto my house whence I came out. — read the full passage →

As a dog that returneth to his vomit, So isa fool that repeateth his folly.

And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad. — read the full passage →

Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away from them. — read the full passage →

Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, that this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. — read the full passage →

But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not. — read the full passage →

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

For thus said the Lord Jehovah, 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:

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? None of his righteous deeds that he hath done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged and gone backward.

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents. — read the full passage →

Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doeth, these the Son also doeth in like manner.

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

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

and others fell upon the rocky places, where they had not much earth: and straightway they sprang up, because they had no deepness of earth: — read the full passage →

How long wilt thou go hither and thither, O thou backsliding daughter? for Jehovah hath created a new thing in the earth: A woman shall encompass a man.

It is of Jehovah’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Now all the publicans and sinners were drawing near unto him to hear him. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against 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, so that he will not hear.

Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again among the people from Beer-sheba to the hill-country of Ephraim, and brought them back unto Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.

Turn ye unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

I will hear what God Jehovah will speak; For he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: But let them not turn again to folly.

Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

for already some are turned aside after Satan.

Ye were running well; who hindered you that ye should not obey the truth?

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever, — read the full passage →

Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance: — read the full passage →

Therefore will I also deal in wrath; mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. — read the full passage →

Thou hast rejected me, saith Jehovah, thou art gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against thee, and destroyed thee; I am weary with repenting.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. — read the full passage →

For he that lacketh 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 elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

Be not manyof youteachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall 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 quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart. — read the full passage →

Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God: — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him; — 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 →

For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye be unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth? — read the full passage →

And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they that see not may see; and that they that see may become blind. — read the full passage →

but whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depth of the sea. — read the full passage →

And I said, Let them set a clean mitre upon his head. So they set a clean mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments; and the angel of Jehovah was standing by. — read the full passage →

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

And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. — read the full passage →

Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah; I will not look in anger upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah, I will not keep anger for ever.

Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

My foot hath held fast to his steps; His way have I kept, and turned not aside. — read the full passage →

lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; — read the full passage →

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. — read the full passage →

Thou didst put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he subjected all things unto him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we see not yet all things subjected to him. — read the full passage →

But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not for decision of scruples. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah will bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I said unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall sell yourselves unto your enemies for bondmen and for bondwomen, and no man shall buy you. — read the full passage →

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity. — read the full passage →