Bible Verses About Backsliders

and they have said, Because that they have forsaken Jehovah their God, who brought out their fathers from the land of Egypt, and they lay hold on other gods, and bow themselves to them, and serve them; therefore hath Jehovah brought in upon them all this evil.'

and he goeth out before Asa, and saith to him, `Hear, me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; Jehovah is with you--in your being with Him, and if ye seek Him, He is found of you, and if ye forsake Him, He forsaketh you;

and many days are to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,

and it turneth back in its distress unto Jehovah, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is found of them,

As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders.

Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,

If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,

Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.

And thou, son of man, say unto the sons of thy people: The righteousness of the righteous doth not deliver him in the day of his transgression, And the wickedness of the wicked, He doth not stumble for it in the day of his turning from his wickedness, And the righteous is not able to live in it in the day of his sinning.

In My saying of the righteous: He surely liveth, And--he hath trusted on his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, All his righteous acts are not remembered, And for his perversity that he hath done, For it he doth die.

And My people are hanging in suspense, about My returning, And unto the Most High they do call, Together they exalt not.

How do I give thee up, O Ephraim? Do I deliver thee up, O Israel? How do I make thee as Admah? Do I set thee as Zeboim? Turned in Me is My heart, kindled together have been My repentings.

and these are they by the way where the word is sown: and whenever they may hear, immediately cometh the Adversary, and he taketh away the word that hath been sown in their hearts.

`And these are they, in like manner, who on the rocky ground are sown: who, whenever they may hear the word, immediately with joy do receive it,

and have not root in themselves, but are temporary; afterward tribulation or persecution having come because of the word, immediately they are stumbled.

`And these are they who toward the thorns are sown: these are they who are hearing the word,

and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

`When the strong man armed may keep his hall, in peace are his goods;

but when the stronger than he, having come upon him , may overcome him, his whole-armour he doth take away in which he had trusted, and his spoils he distributeth;

he who is not with me is against me, and he who is not gathering with me doth scatter.

`When the unclean spirit may go forth from the man it walketh through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding, it saith, I will turn back to my house whence I came forth;

and having come, it findeth it swept and adorned;

then doth it go, and take to it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having entered, they dwell there, and the last of that man becometh worst than the first.'

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

and all to Moses were baptized in the cloud, and in the sea;