Bible verses about "backsliders" | WPNT

² Wake up! And strengthen the remaining things that you were about to throw away, for I have not found your works to be fulfilled before my God.

²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the real knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter circumstances have become worse for them than the first ones.

³ So remember how you have received and heard, and hold fast and repent; because if you do not watch I will come upon you like a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.

¹ Brothers, if a man is actually caught in some wrongdoing, you, the spiritual ones, should restore him in a spirit of gentleness, watching out for yourself lest you also be tempted.

⁹ But now that you know God—better, are known by God—how can you turn back to those weak, yes decidedly inferior, basic principles, to which you wish to be enslaved all over again?

¹⁹ holding on to faith and a good conscience (which some having rejected have suffered shipwreck concerning the faith;

⁴ Because, it is impossible to bring back into repentance those who were once for all enlightened, who have partaken of the heavenly gift and were made sharers in the Holy Spirit, ⁵ who have experienced God’s good event and capabilities of the coming age, ⁶ and yet have fallen away—they would be crucifying the Son of God all over again, just for themselves, holding Him up to contempt. ⁷ Now the ground that drinks in the rain that frequently falls on it and produces a crop useful to those for whom it is really cultivated receives blessing from God; ⁸ but should it bear thorns and thistles, it is disqualified, almost a curse, whose destiny is a burning.

⁸ Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Sinners, cleanse your hands! Double-minded, purify your hearts!

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

⁷ You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?

⁶² But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to ‘the plow’ and looks back is suitable for the Kingdom of God”.

²⁶ Because, if we deliberately keep on sinning after having received the real knowledge of the Truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ just a certain fearful anticipation of judgment and fierce fire that is ready to consume the hostiles. ²⁸ Anyone who rejected Moses’ law died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be deemed worthy who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has regarded as unholy the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

⁴ ‘Nevertheless I have against you that you have left your first love.

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

⁵ So think about from where you have drifted and repent, and do the first works, or else I will come at you swiftly and remove your lampstand out of its place —unless you do repent.