Bible verses about "backsliders" | Anderson

² Be watchful, and strengthen the things that remain, which are about to die; for I have not found your works perfect before God.

²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these, and overcome by them, the last state of such is worse than the first.

³ Remember, therefore, how you have received and heard, and be watchful and repent. If, therefore, you do not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you shall not know at what hour I will come upon you.

¹ Brethren, if a man be overtaken in any fault, do you, who are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.

⁹ now, however, after having known God, rather indeed having been known by God, how is it that you are turning back to the weak and beggarly rudiments, to which you desire again to be in bondage, as at first?

¹⁹ holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust from them, as it respects faith have made shipwreck; of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander,

⁴ For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the coming age, ⁶ if they fall away; since they again crucify in themselves the Son of God, and put him to an open shame. ⁷ For the land which drinks up the rain that comes often upon it, and produces herbs suitable for those for whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God. ⁸ But that which produces thorns and thistles is rejected, and is near the curse, the end of which is to be burned.

⁸ draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded men.

¹⁷ Therefore, to him that knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

⁷ You were running well; who kept you back from obedience to the truth?

⁶² Jesus said to him: No one that puts his hand to the plow, and looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

²⁶ For if we sin willfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no longer a sacrifice for sins; ²⁷ but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and a fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. ²⁸ He that despised Moses law, died without mercy, on the testimony of two or three witnesses: ²⁹ of how much severer punishment do you think he shall be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, with which he was sanctified, a common thing, and has done despite to the Spirit of grace?

⁴ But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

²¹ For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.

⁵ Remember, therefore, whence you have fallen, and repent, and do your first works; if not, I will come to you quickly, and I will remove your candlestick from its place, unless you repent.