Bible Verses About Backsliders

and tasted the goodness of God’s Word and the powers of the ‘olam haba —

and then have fallen away — it is impossible to renew them so that they turn from their sin, as long as for themselves they keep executing the Son of God on the stake all over again and keep holding him up to public contempt.

For the land that soaks up frequent rains and then brings forth a crop useful to its owners receives a blessing from God;

but if it keeps producing thorns and thistles, it fails the test and is close to being cursed; in the end, it will be burned.

For if we deliberately continue to sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

but only the terrifying prospect of Judgment, of raging fire that will consume the enemies.

Someone who disregards the Torah of Moshe is put to death without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses.

Think how much worse will be the punishment deserved by someone who has trampled underfoot the Son of God; who has treated as something common the blood of the covenant which made him holy; and who has insulted the Spirit, giver of God’s grace!

But the person who is righteous will live his life by trusting, and if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him.”

However, we are not the kind who shrink back and are destroyed; on the contrary, we keep trusting and thus preserve our lives!

For people who speak this way make it clear that they are looking for a fatherland.

Now if they were to keep recalling the one they left, they would have an opportunity to return;

Indeed, if they have once escaped the pollutions of the world through knowing our Lord and Deliverer, Yeshua the Messiah, and then have again become entangled and defeated by them, their latter condition has become worse than their former.

It would have been better for them not to have known the Way of righteousness than, fully knowing, to turn from the holy command delivered to them.

But I have this against you: you have lost the love you had at first.

Therefore, remember where you were before you fell, turn from this sin, and do what you used to do before. Otherwise, I will come to you and remove your menorah from its place — if you don’t turn from your sin!

I gave her time to turn from her sin, but she doesn’t want to repent of her immorality.

So I am throwing her into a sickbed; and those who commit adultery with her I am throwing into great trouble, unless they turn from the sins connected with what she does;

and I will strike her children dead! Then all the Messianic communities will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts, and that I will give to each of you what your deeds deserve.

Wake up, and strengthen what remains, before it dies too! For I have found what you are doing incomplete in the sight of my God.

So remember what you received and heard, and obey it, and turn from your sin! For if you don’t wake up, I will come like a thief; and you don’t know at what moment I will come upon you.