Bible verses about "backslider" | BBE

¹⁴ Come back, O children who are turned away, says the Lord; for I am a husband to you, and I will take you, one from a town and two from a family, and will make you come to Zion;

²² Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God.

⁴ As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit, ⁵ With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time, ⁶ And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him.

¹⁴ If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.

¹⁴ He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.

⁹ If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.

²⁶ For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins, ²⁷ But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God. ²⁸ A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses: ²⁹ But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment? ³⁰ For we have had experience of him who says, Punishment is mine, I will give reward. And again, The Lord will be judge of his people. ³¹ We may well go in fear of falling into the hands of the living God.