- “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.” – 2 Peter 2:20 (ESV)
“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.”
- “Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.” – Hebrews 3:12 (ESV)
“Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.”
- “So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.” – Revelation 3:16 (ESV)
“So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.”
- “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 14:14 (ESV)
“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.”
- “But if 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.” – Ezekiel 18:24 (ESV)
“But if 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.”
- “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.” – 2 Peter 2:21 (ESV)
“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.”
- “Do not be deceived: ‘Bad company ruins good morals.'” – 1 Corinthians 15:33 (ESV)
“Do not be deceived: ‘Bad company ruins good morals.'”
- “Remember, therefore, from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.” – Revelation 2:5 (ESV)
“Remember, therefore, from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.”
- “But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.” – Jeremiah 7:24 (ESV)
“But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.”
- “Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness. ‘Behold, we come to you, for you are the Lord our God.'” – Jeremiah 3:22 (ESV)
“Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness. ‘Behold, we come to you, for you are the Lord our God.'”
- “And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh.” – Ezekiel 11:19 (ESV)
“And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh.”
- “But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” – Hebrews 10:38 (ESV)
“But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
- “I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?” – Jeremiah 13:27 (ESV)
“I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?”
- “I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot!” – Revelation 3:15 (ESV)
“I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot!”
- “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” – 1 John 1:9 (ESV)
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
- “My soul clings to the dust; give me life according to your word!” – Psalm 119:25 (ESV)
“My soul clings to the dust; give me life according to your word!”
- “Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” – Matthew 26:41 (ESV)
“Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
- “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.” – Galatians 6:1 (ESV)
“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.”
- “But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.” – 2 Chronicles 26:16 (ESV)
“But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.”
- “Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.” – Psalm 51:12 (ESV)
“Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.”
- “But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.” – Revelation 2:4 (ESV)
“But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.”
- “For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” – Matthew 7:14 (ESV)
“For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.”
- “Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.” – Proverbs 28:13 (ESV)
“Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.”
- “He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.” – Psalm 23:3 (ESV)
“He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.”
- “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” – Romans 12:2 (ESV)
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
- “Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.” – 1 Corinthians 15:58 (ESV)
“Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.”
- “For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,” – Hebrews 10:26 (ESV)
“For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains 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.” – James 4:8 (ESV)
“Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”
- “But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.'” – 1 Samuel 16:7 (ESV)
“But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.'”
- “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.” – Galatians 6:9 (ESV)
“And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.”
