Bible Verses about โchristians who are backsliddenโ
The Bible contains 23 verses about christians who are backslidden across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFor I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.โ
โIf we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.โ
โfor by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,โ
โBut be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.โ
โnot of works, that no one would boast.โ
โNot everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.โ
โFor if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,โ
โMany will tell me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?'โ
โThen I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'โ
โBrothers, 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.โ
โBut you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.โ
โYes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;โ
โYou shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.โ
โand in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.โ
โand in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;โ
โFor if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.โ
โFor concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,โ
โand 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.โ
โYou shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.โ
โand tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,โ
โThe unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.โ
โI will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh; and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.โ
โFor he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.โ
