Backsliding

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 →

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 →

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

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 `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 →

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 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?

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

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;

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

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

`To the messenger of the Ephesian assembly write: These things saith he who is holding the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven lamp-stands--the golden: — read the full passage →

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

`When the unclean spirit may go forth from the man it walketh through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding, it saith, I will turn back to my house whence I came forth; — read the full passage →

and Jesus saith to them--`All ye shall be stumbled at me this night, because it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad, — read the full passage →

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

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 →

Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, that, this night, before cock-crowing, thrice thou wilt deny me.' — read the full passage →

`And, when the unclean spirit may go forth from the man, it doth walk through dry places seeking rest, and doth not find; — 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 →

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

Jesus therefore responded and said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything of himself, if he may not see the Father doing anything; for whatever things He may do, these also the Son in like manner doth;

I have known thy works, that neither cold art thou 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 immediately they sprang forth, through not having depth of earth, — read the full passage →

but I chastise my body, and bring <FI>it<Fi> into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him, — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

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

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;

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? — read the full passage →

for already certain did turn aside after the Adversary.

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

and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you--to the age; — read the full passage →

bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, — read the full passage →

Judas, of Jesus Christ a servant, and brother of James, to those sanctified in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ kept--called, — read the full passage →

Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him: — read the full passage →

for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins;

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive, — read the full passage →

through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered--the obedience, — read the full passage →

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart; — read the full passage →

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

traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, — read the full passage →

As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of; — read the full passage →

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I did deliver to the Adversary, that they might be instructed not to speak evil. — read the full passage →

And we ask you, brethren, in regard to the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto him, — read the full passage →

who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate <FI>us<Fi> into the reign of the Son of His love, — read the full passage →

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude; — read the full passage →

who also shall confirm you unto the end--unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

Are ye ignorant, brethren--for to those knowing law I speak--that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth? — read the full passage →

And Jesus said, `For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.' — read the full passage →

and whoever may cause to stumble one of those little ones who are believing in me, it is better for him that a weighty millstone may be hanged upon his neck, and he may be sunk in the depth of the sea. — read the full passage →

all things Thou didst put in subjection under his feet,' for in the subjecting to him the all things, nothing did He leave to him unsubjected, and now not yet do we see the all things subjected to him, — read the full passage →

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →