Bible Verses about “backslider”

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

“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.”

“"But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.”

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

“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 lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.”

“for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.' They began to celebrate.”

“"Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.”

“"He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.”

“The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'”

“Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;”

“But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!”

“I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.”

“I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."'”

“He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.”

“Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.”

“But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'"”

“He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.”

“He said, "A certain man had two sons.”

“The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them.”

“When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.”

“"He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.”

“But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.”

“He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.”

“He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.'”

“But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.”

“But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'”

“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.”

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

“But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."”

“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.”

“For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,”

“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.”

“and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,”

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

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

“But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."”

“But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.”

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

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

“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?”

“Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.”

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

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