here are 30 Bible verses on backsliding:
- Jeremiah 3:22:
“Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness.”
- Jeremiah 3:12:
“Return, faithless Israel, declares the Lord. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the Lord; I will not be angry forever.”
- 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.”
- Hosea 14:4:
“I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.”
- 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.’”
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.”
- Isaiah 57:17:
“Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry, I struck him; I hid my face and was angry, but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.”
- Hebrews 10:26-27:
“For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.”
- Proverbs 26:11:
“Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.”
- 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.”
- Psalm 51:12:
“Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.”
- Psalm 119:176:
“I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.”
- Jeremiah 2:32:
“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.”
- 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.”
- Hebrews 3:12-13:
“Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called ‘today,’ that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.”
- Jeremiah 5:6:
“Therefore a lion from the forest shall strike them down; a wolf from the desert shall devastate them. A leopard is watching their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.”
- 2 Chronicles 30:9:
“For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”
- Proverbs 24:16:
“For the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.”
- Jeremiah 2:13:
“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.”
- 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.”
- 1 Corinthians 10:12:
“Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.”
- 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.”
- 2 Peter 2:21:
“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.”
- Jeremiah 3:14:
“Return, O faithless children, declares the Lord; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.”
- 1 Timothy 1:19:
“Holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith.”
- Matthew 26:33:
“Peter answered him, ‘Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.’”
- Hosea 4:16:
“Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the Lord now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?”
- Ezekiel 18:30:
“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.”
These verses warn against the dangers of backsliding and urge repentance and returning to the Lord.