Bible Verses about “backsliders”

“To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.”

“For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,”

“Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.”

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

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

“Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.”

“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.”

“How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?”

“A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.”

“From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says Yahweh of Armies. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'”

“"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.”