Backsliding
49 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
22 sections
- A Haughty Spirit Leads To
- Afflictions Sent to Heal
- Blessedness of Those Who Keep From
- Brings Its own Punishment
- Endeavour to Bring Back Those Guilty of
- Exhortations to Return From
- God is Displeased At
- Guilt and Consequences of
- Hateful to Saints
- Healing of, Promised
- Israel
- Liable to Continue and Increase
- Not Hopeless
- Pardon of, Promised
- Peter
- Pray to be Restored From
- Proneness To
- Punishment of Tempting Others to the Sin of
- Saul
- Sin of, to be Confessed
- Solomon
- Warnings Against
A Haughty Spirit Leads To
- Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Afflictions Sent to Heal
- Hosea 5:15 Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
Blessedness of Those Who Keep From
- Proverbs 28:14 Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
- Isaiah 26:3–4 You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You. …
- Colossians 1:21–23 Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds. …
Brings Its own Punishment
- Proverbs 14:14 The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.
- 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.
Endeavour to Bring Back Those Guilty of
- Galatians 6:1 Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.
- James 5:19–20 My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back, …
Exhortations to Return From
- 2 Chronicles 30:6 At the command of the king, the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: “Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may …
- Isaiah 31:6 Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.
- Jeremiah 3:12 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 3:14 “Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you — one from a city and two from a family — and bring you to Zion.
- Jeremiah 3:22 “Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
- Hosea 6:1 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.
God is Displeased At
- Psalm 78:57 They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
- Psalm 78:59 On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
Guilt and Consequences of
- 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.”
- Psalm 125:5 But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
- Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
- Jeremiah 5:6 Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are …
- Jeremiah 8:5 Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
- Jeremiah 8:13 I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”
- Jeremiah 15:6 You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.
- 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.”
Hateful to Saints
- Psalm 101:3 I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
Healing of, Promised
- Jeremiah 3:22 “Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
- Hosea 14:4 I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
Israel
- Exodus 32:8 How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you …
- 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.
- Jeremiah 3:11 And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah.
- Hosea 4:16 For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?
Liable to Continue and Increase
- Jeremiah 8:5 Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
- 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.
Not Hopeless
- Psalm 37:24 Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.
- Proverbs 24:16 For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.
Pardon of, Promised
- 2 Chronicles 7:14 and 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, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
- Jeremiah 3:12 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 31:20 Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 36:3 Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the calamity I plan to bring upon them, each of them will turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
Peter
- Matthew 26:70–74 But he denied it before them all: “I do not know what you are talking about.” …
Pray to be Restored From
- Psalm 80:3 Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
- Psalm 85:4 Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
- Lamentations 5:21 Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,
Proneness To
- Proverbs 24:16 For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.
- 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.
Punishment of Tempting Others to the Sin of
- Proverbs 28:10 He who leads the upright along the path of evil will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.
- Matthew 18:6 But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
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.
Sin of, to be Confessed
- Isaiah 59:12–14 For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities: …
- Jeremiah 3:13–14 Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD. …
- Jeremiah 14:7–9 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. …
Solomon
- 1 Kings 11:3–4 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines — and his wives turned his heart away. …
Warnings Against
- 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.
- 1 Corinthians 10:12 So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.
Related topics
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.