Backsliding
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Backsliding’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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1 Kings 11:9 OT
Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
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But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
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But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
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Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by…
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You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
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You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
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Psalms 78:57 OT
but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.
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Psalms 78:59 OT
When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,
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Psalms 85:8 OT
I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.
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Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.
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For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you will fall by the sword because you turned back from following Yahweh; therefore Yahweh will not be with you.”
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Psalms 125:5 OT
But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
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Isaiah 59:2 OT
But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
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Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We…
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Jeremiah 5:6 OT
Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their…
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Jeremiah 8:5 OT
Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.
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“ ‘I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh. No grapes will be on the vine, no figs on the fig tree, and the leaf will fade. The things that I have given them will pass away from them.’ ”
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You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.
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Luke 9:62 NT
But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”
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The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
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“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of…
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Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
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for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
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Hosea 11:7 OT
My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.