Bible verses about "backsliders" | JuliaSmith

²⁴ And in the just turning back from his justice, and doing iniquity according to all the abominations which the unjust one did, will he do and live? all his justices which he did shall not be remembered: in his transgression which he transgressed and in his sins which he sinned, in them he shall die.

⁷ For from the days of your fathers ye departed from my laws, and ye watched not. Turn back to me and I will turn back to you, said Jehovah of armies. And ye said, In what shall we turn back?

² Be watching, and make firm the remaining things, which are about to die: For I have not found thy works perfected before God.

²⁰ For if having escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and again entangling with these, they be conquered, the last things have been to them worse than the first.

³ Remember therefore how thou hast received, and heard, and do thou, and repent. If therefore thou watch not, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I shall come upon thee.

¹ Brethren, if a man be taken in any fault, ye the spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; observing thyself narrowly, lest thou also be tempted.

⁹ And now, having known God, and rather known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and poor elements, to which again ye wish anew to be in a servile condition

¹⁹ Having faith, and a good consciousness; which some having rejected concerning faith suffered shipwreck:

⁴ For impossible for them once enlightened, and having tasted of the heavenly gift, and having partaken of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ And tasted of the good word of God, and powers of the life about to be, ⁶ And having fallen, again to renew to repentance; crucifying to themselves the Son of God, and exposing to ignominy. ⁷ For the earth drinking the rain coming often upon it, and bringing forth the vegetable fitting well to them by whom it is cultivated, receives commendation from God: ⁸ And producing thorns and briers is rejected, after having been tried, and near cursing; whose end for destruction.

⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinful; and purify the hearts, ye double souled.

¹⁷ Therefore to him knowing to do good, and not doing, to him it is sin.

⁷ Ye were running well; who hindered you not to obey the truth?

⁶² And Jesus said to him, No one putting his hand upon the plough, and looking back, is adapted to the kingdom of God.

²⁶ For we sinning voluntarily after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there is left no more a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ But a certain terrible expectation of judgment and jealousy of fire, being about to devour the adversaries. ²⁸ Any one having rejected Moses' law, without compassion dies by two or three witnesses: ²⁹ Of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be deemed worthy. having trodden down the Son of God, and deemed the blood of the covenant common, in which he was consecrated, and having outraged the Spirit of grace?

⁴ But I have against thee, for thou hest let go thy first love.

²¹ For it was better for them not to have known the way of justice, than, having known, to turn back from the holy command delivererd to them.

⁵ Therefore remember whence thou hest fallen, and repent, and do the first works; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and I will move the chandelier out of its place, except thou repent.