Bible Verses About Backsliders

And did all eat the same spiritual meat,

And did all drinke the same spirituall drinke (for they dranke of the spiritual Rocke that folowed them: and the Rocke was Christ)

But with many of them God was not pleased: for they were ouerthrowen in ye wildernes.

Nowe these things are our ensamples, to the intent that we should not lust after euil things as they also lusted.

Neither bee ye idolaters as were some of them, as it is written, The people sate downe to eate and drinke, and rose vp to play.

Neither let vs commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twentie thousand.

Neither let vs tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted him, and were destroyed of serpents.

Neither murmure ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

Nowe all these things came vnto them for ensamples, and were written to admonish vs, vpon whome the endes of the world are come.

Wherefore, let him that thinketh he standeth, take heede lest he fall.

There hath no tentation taken you, but such as appertaine to man: and God is faithfull, which will not suffer you to be tempted aboue that you be able, but wil euen giue the issue with the tentation, that ye may be able to beare it.

For I feare least when I come, I shall not finde you such as I would: and that I shalbe found vnto you such as ye woulde not, and least there be strife, enuying, wrath, contentions, backebitings, whisperings, swellings and discord.

I feare least when I come againe, my God abase me among you, and I shall bewaile many of them which haue sinned already, and haue not repented of the vncleannesse, and fornication, and wantonnesse which they haue committed.

I marueile that ye are so soone remoued away vnto another Gospel, from him that had called you in the grace of Christ,

Which is not another Gospel, saue that there be some which trouble you, and intend to peruert the Gospel of Christ.

But now seeing ye knowe God, yea, rather are knowen of God, howe turne ye againe vnto impotent and beggerly rudiments, whereunto as from the beginning ye wil be in bondage againe?

Ye obserue dayes, and moneths, and times and yeeres.

I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vaine.

O Timotheus, keepe that which is committed vnto thee, and auoide prophane and vaine babblings, and oppositios of science falsely so called,

Which while some professe, they haue erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee, Amen. The first Epistle to Timotheus, written from Laodicea, which is the chiefest citie of Phrygia Pacaciana.

Take heede, brethren, least at any time there be in any of you an euill heart, and vnfaithfull, to depart away from the liuing God.

But exhort one another dayly, while it is called to day, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulnes of sinne.

Of whome we haue many things to say, which are hard to be vttered, because ye are dull of hearing.

For when as concerning ye time ye ought to be teachers, yet haue ye neede againe that we teach you what are the first principles of the worde of God: and are become such as haue neede of milke, and not of strong meate.

For it is impossible that they which were once lightened, and haue tasted of the heauenly gift, and were made partakers of the holy Ghost,