Backsliders
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Backsliders’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 97–120 of 256 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Isaiah 17:10 OT
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
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Isaiah 17:11 OT
In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
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Jonah 1:3 OT
But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.
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But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.
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John 6:66 NT
At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
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Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, “You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!” But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.” When he had gone out onto the porch,…
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It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this…
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But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again? You observe days, months, seasons, and…
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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
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of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
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This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
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But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
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So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise.
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But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
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“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth. Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have…
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“ ‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me, I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of…
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But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
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When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.
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It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven you, and return to Yahweh your God and…
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I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;
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For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.
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Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
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“When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house; then hear in heaven, and forgive the…
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For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face…