What are some Bible verses about backsliding?

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Hebrews 6:4\-6  

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.  
  

1 John 1:9  

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

Proverbs 14:14  

The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.  
  

Proverbs 24:16  

For the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.  
  

2 Corinthians 13:5  

Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!  
  

Jeremiah 8:5  

Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.  
  

Jeremiah 14:7  

Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.  
  

2 Peter 2:20\-22  

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”  
  

Luke 9:62  

Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”  
  

Hosea 11:7  

My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all.  
  

Jeremiah 2:19  

Your evil will chastise you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, declares the Lord God of hosts.  
  

Jeremiah 24:7  

I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.  
  

James 5:19\-20  

My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.  
  

Galatians 6:1  

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.  
  

2 Chronicles 7:14  

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.  
  

Matthew 12:43\-45  

When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.  
  

1 Corinthians 10:12  

Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.  
  

2 Timothy 4:10  

For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.  
  

Hosea 4:16  

Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the Lord now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?  
  

Ezekiel 18:24  

But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.  
  

*Unless otherwise noted, all Bible verses are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® Copyright© 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.*  
  

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