Backsliders

204 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

28 sections

Amaziah

2 Chronicles 25:27 From the time that Amaziah turned from following the LORD, a conspiracy was formed against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But men were sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.

Amon

2 Kings 21:22–23 He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD. …

Asa

2 Chronicles 16:7–9 At that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and told him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand. …

Backsliding of Israel

Exodus 17:7 He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
Numbers 14:43 For there the Amalekites and Canaanites will face you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.”
Deuteronomy 4:25–31 After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form— doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger— …
Deuteronomy 31:16–30 And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have …
Deuteronomy 32:5–6 His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the blemish on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation. …
Deuteronomy 32:15 But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy 32:18 You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
Judges 2:12 Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,
Judges 10:12–14 Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands? …
2 Chronicles 24:20 Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? …
2 Kings 18:1 In the third year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz became king of Judah.
2 Kings 18:12 This happened because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD their God, but violated His covenant— all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded — and would neither listen nor obey.
2 Chronicles 13:11 Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We …
2 Chronicles 27:2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done. In addition, he did not enter the temple of the LORD. But the people still behaved corruptly.
2 Chronicles 29:6 For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.
2 Chronicles 29:8 Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.
Ezra 9:10 And now, our God, what can we say after this? For we have forsaken the commandments
Ezra 9:13–14 After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this), …
Nehemiah 9:26 But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
Psalm 78:10–11 They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law. …
Psalm 78:40–43 How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert! …
Psalm 78:56–64 But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees. …
Psalm 106:13–14 Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel. …
Isaiah 1:4–7 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him. …
Isaiah 1:21–22 See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers! …
Isaiah 2:6 For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
Isaiah 5:12–30 At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands. …
Isaiah 9:13–21 But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts. …
Isaiah 17:10–11 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines — …
Isaiah 24:5–6 The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant. …
Isaiah 30:9 These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
Isaiah 30:15 For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence — but you were not willing.”
Isaiah 31:6 Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.
Isaiah 43:22 But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.
Isaiah 43:24 You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.
Isaiah 50:1 This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother …
Isaiah 51:17–20 Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs — the cup that makes men stagger. …
Isaiah 63:17 Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
Isaiah 65:2–3 All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations, …
Jeremiah 2:5 This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves.
Jeremiah 2:11–13 Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols. …
Jeremiah 2:17 Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
Jeremiah 2:19 Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
Jeremiah 2:21 I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
Jeremiah 2:27 say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Yet in the time of trouble, they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’
Jeremiah 2:31–32 You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’? …
Jeremiah 3:1–25 “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers — and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD. …
Jeremiah 5:1–31 “Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city. …
Jeremiah 6:30 They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
Jeremiah 7:12–34 But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel. …
Jeremiah 8:1–22 “At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves. …
Jeremiah 10:17–22 Gather up your belongings from this land, you who live under siege. …
Jeremiah 11:9–17 And the LORD told me, “There is a conspiracy among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem. …
Jeremiah 12:7 I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the beloved of My soul into the hands of her enemies.
Jeremiah 13:24–25 “I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind. …
Jeremiah 14:7 Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.
Jeremiah 14:10 This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish them for their sins.”
Jeremiah 15:1–14 Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go! …
Jeremiah 18:13–15 Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing. …
Jeremiah 19:1 This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,
Jeremiah 32:30–31 For the children of Israel and of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth; indeed, they have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD. …
Jeremiah 50:6 My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to roam the mountains. They have wandered from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.
Ezekiel 2:3–8 “Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me. …
Ezekiel 5:1–17 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair. …
Ezekiel 11:1–21 Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, …
Ezekiel 15:1 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 16:43 Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your …
Ezekiel 22:18 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.
Ezekiel 23:1 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Hosea 1:1–9 This is the word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and of Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel. …
Hosea 2:1 “Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’
Hosea 3:1 Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols.”
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
Hosea 4:10 They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have abandoned the LORD to give themselves
Hosea 4:16 For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?
Hosea 5:1–15 “Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor. …
Hosea 6:4–11 What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes. …
Hosea 8:14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.
Hosea 9:1–17 Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor. …
Hosea 11:2 But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.
Hosea 11:7 My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.
Hosea 13:16 Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
Hosea 14:1 Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
Amos 2:4 This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.
Zephaniah 1:6 and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
Malachi 1:6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we …
Malachi 3:7 Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’
Hebrews 3:16–18 For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? …

Churches of Asia

1 Timothy 5:15 For some have already turned aside to follow Satan.
Revelation 2:4 But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.
Revelation 2:14–15 But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality. …
Revelation 2:20 But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
Revelation 3:2–3 Wake up and strengthen what remains, which is about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God. …
Revelation 3:15–18 I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other! …

Corinthian Christians

1 Corinthians 5:1–8 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife. …
2 Corinthians 12:20–21 For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder. …

Demas

2 Timothy 4:10 because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Galatians

Galatians 1:6 I am amazed how quickly you are deserting the One who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel —
Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
Galatians 4:9–11 But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? …
Galatians 5:6–7 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. What matters is faith expressing itself through love. …

General Scriptures Concerning

Leviticus 26:14–42 If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments, …
Deuteronomy 4:9 Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
Deuteronomy 8:11–14 Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day. …
Deuteronomy 28:15–68 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: …
Deuteronomy 29:18–28 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit, …
Deuteronomy 32:15–30 But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation. …
Joshua 24:20–27 If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you.” …
1 Kings 9:6–9 But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods, …
2 Chronicles 15:2–4 So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you. …
Ezra 8:22 For I was ashamed to ask the king for an escort of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from our enemies on the road, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all …
Job 34:26–27 He strikes them for their wickedness in full view, …
Psalm 44:20–21 If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, …
Psalm 73:27 Those far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.
Psalm 85:8 I will listen to what God the LORD will say; for He will surely speak peace to His people and His saints; He will not let them return to folly.
Psalm 125:5 But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
Proverbs 2:17 who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
Proverbs 14:14 The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.
Proverbs 24:16 For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.
Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
Jeremiah 17:13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
Ezekiel 3:20 Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. …
Ezekiel 18:24 But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness and sin …
Ezekiel 18:26 If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will die for this. He will die because of the iniquity he has committed.
Ezekiel 23:35 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your indecency and prostitution.’”
Ezekiel 33:12–13 Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from …
Ezekiel 33:18 If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
Hosea 11:7–8 My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them. …
Jonah 2:4 At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’
Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
Matthew 12:45 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there. And the final plight of that man is worse than the first. So will it be with this wicked generation.”
Matthew 24:12 Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.
Matthew 26:31 Then Jesus said to them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of Me. For it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
Mark 4:7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings, and they yielded no crop.
Mark 4:15–19 Some are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. …
Mark 8:38 If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
Mark 9:50 Salt is good, but if the salt loses its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
Luke 9:62 Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Luke 11:21–26 When a strong man, fully armed, guards his house, his possessions are secure. …
Luke 17:32 Remember Lot’s wife!
John 6:67 So Jesus asked the Twelve, “Do you want to leave too?”
John 15:6 If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
1 Corinthians 10:1–13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea. …
2 Corinthians 12:20–21 For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder. …
Galatians 1:6–7 I am amazed how quickly you are deserting the One who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel — …
Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
Galatians 4:9 But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
Galatians 4:11 I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.
Galatians 5:7 You were running so well. Who has obstructed you from obeying the truth?
1 Timothy 1:19 holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith.
1 Timothy 5:15 For some have already turned aside to follow Satan.
1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:20–21 O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid irreverent, empty chatter and the opposing arguments of so-called “knowledge,” …
2 Timothy 1:8 So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me, His prisoner. Instead, join me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.
2 Timothy 2:12 if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us;
2 Timothy 4:10 because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
Hebrews 3:12–13 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. …
Hebrews 4:1 Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it.
Hebrews 4:11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
Hebrews 5:11–12 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing. …
Hebrews 6:4–8 It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, …
Hebrews 10:26–29 If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains, …
Hebrews 10:38–39 But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.” …
Hebrews 11:14–15 Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own. …
Hebrews 12:15 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
2 Peter 1:9 But whoever lacks these traits is nearsighted to the point of blindness, having forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.
2 Peter 2:20–21 If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first. …
2 John 9 Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son.
Revelation 2:4–5 But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love. …
Revelation 2:21 Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.
Revelation 3:2–3 Wake up and strengthen what remains, which is about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God. …
Revelation 21:8 But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

Hymenaeus and Alexander

1 Timothy 1:19–20 holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith. …

Israel's Backsliding: After Joshua's Death

Judges 2:1 Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,

Israel's Backsliding: At Meribah

Exodus 17:1–7 Then the whole congregation of Israel left the Desert of Sin, moving from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. …

Israel's Backsliding: During Asa's Reign

2 Chronicles 15:1 Now the Spirit of God came upon Azariah son of Oded.

Israel's Backsliding: Hezekiah's Reign

2 Chronicles 30:2–12 For the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month, …

Israel's Backsliding: when Aaron Made the Golden Calf

Exodus 32:1 Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do …

Jews

Ezra 6:16–21 Then the people of Israel — the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles — celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy. …
Ezra 10:1 While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites — men, women, and children — gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.

Joash

2 Chronicles 24:24 Although the Aramean army had come with only a few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army. Because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, judgment was executed on Joash.

Jonah

Jonah 2:1 From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,
Jonah 3:1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:

Peter

Matthew 26:75 Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.
Mark 14:72 And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” And he broke down and wept.
Luke 22:62 And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Phygellus and Hermogenes

2 Timothy 1:15 You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

Promises To

Leviticus 26:40–42 But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me— …
Deuteronomy 4:29–30 But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. …
Deuteronomy 30:1–10 “When all these things come upon you— the blessings and curses I have set before you— and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you, …
Deuteronomy 32:26 I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,
Deuteronomy 32:28–29 Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them. …
1 Kings 8:33–53 When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple, …
2 Chronicles 30:9 For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and sons will receive mercy in the presence of their captors and will return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful; He will not turn His face away from you if …
Job 22:23–30 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents …
Psalm 17:5 My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.
Psalm 56:13 For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
Psalm 81:13–14 If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways, …
Isaiah 42:3 A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.
Isaiah 57:18–19 I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners, …
Jeremiah 3:4–7 Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth. …
Jeremiah 3:12–22 Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever. …
Jeremiah 4:1–2 “If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver, …
Jeremiah 4:14 Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
Jeremiah 6:16 This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
Hosea 14:4 I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
Zechariah 10:6 I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had not rejected them. For I am the LORD their God, and I will answer them.
Malachi 3:7 Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’
Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
Revelation 3:8 I know your deeds. Behold, I have placed before you an open door, which no one can shut. I know that you have only a little strength, yet you have kept My word and have not denied My name.
Revelation 3:15–21 I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other! …

Rehoboam

2 Chronicles 12:1–2 After Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he and all Israel with him forsook the Law of the LORD. …

Return of

Psalm 80:3–7 Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved. …
Psalm 80:14–19 Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine— …
Isaiah 17:7 In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 29:24 Then the wayward in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction.”
Isaiah 31:6–7 Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel. …
Jeremiah 50:4–6 “In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God. …
Hosea 3:5 Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.
Hosea 6:1–3 Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds. …

Saul

1 Samuel 15:11 “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all that night.
1 Samuel 15:26–28 “I will not return with you,” Samuel replied. “For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and He has rejected you as king over Israel.” …

Solomon

1 Kings 11:4–40 For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been. …
Nehemiah 13:26 Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel— yet foreign women drew him into sin.

Syrians

Isaiah 17:10–11 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines — …

The Disciples

Matthew 26:56 But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.
John 6:66 From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.

Thomas

John 20:27–29 Then Jesus said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at My hands. Reach out your hand and put it into My side. Stop doubting and believe.” …

Backsliders

Amaziah

Amon

Asa

Backsliding of Israel

Churches of Asia

Corinthian Christians

Demas

Galatians

General Scriptures Concerning

Hymenaeus and Alexander

Israel's Backsliding: After Joshua's Death

Israel's Backsliding: At Meribah

Israel's Backsliding: During Asa's Reign

Israel's Backsliding: Hezekiah's Reign

Israel's Backsliding: when Aaron Made the Golden Calf

Jews

Joash

Jonah

Peter

Phygellus and Hermogenes

Promises To

Rehoboam

Return of

Saul

Solomon

Syrians

The Disciples

Thomas

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