Bible Concordances
Backsliding

Torrey's Topical Textbook

• Is turning from God
  1 Kings 11:9

• Is leaving the first love
  Revelation 2:4

• Is departing form the simplicity of the gospel
  2 Corinthians 11:3; Galatians 3:1-3; 5:4,7

• God is displeased at
  Psalm 78:57,59

• Warnings against
  Psalm 85:8; 1 Corinthians 10:12

• Guilt and consequences of
  Numbers 14:43; Psalm 125:5; Isaiah 59:2,9-11; Jeremiah 5:6; 8:5,13; 15:6; Luke 9:62

• Brings its own punishment
  Proverbs 14:14; Jeremiah 2:19

• A haughty spirit leads to
  Proverbs 16:18

• Proneness to
  Proverbs 24:16; Hosea 11:7

• Liable to continue and increase
  Jeremiah 8:5; 14:7

• Exhortations to return from
  2 Chronicles 30:6; Isaiah 31:6; Jeremiah 3:12,14,22; Hosea 6:1

• Pray to be restored from
  Psalm 80:3; 85:4; Lamentations 5:21

• Punishment of tempting others to the sin of
  Proverbs 28:10; Matthew 18:6

• Not hopeless
  Psalm 37:24; Proverbs 24:16

• Endeavour to bring back those guilty of
  Galatians 6:1; James 5:19,20

• Sin of, to be confessed
  Isaiah 59:12-14; Jeremiah 3:13,14; 14:7-9

• Pardon of, promised
  2 Chronicles 7:14; Jeremiah 3:12; 31:20; 36:3

• Healing of, promised
  Jeremiah 3:22; Hosea 14:4

• Afflictions sent to heal
  Hosea 5:15

• Blessedness of those who keep from
  Proverbs 28:14; Isaiah 26:3,4; Colossians 1:21-23

• Hateful to saints
  Psalm 101:3

• Exemplified
  • Israel
    Exodus 32:8; Nehemiah 9:26; Jeremiah 3:11; Hosea 4:16
  • Saul
    1 Samuel 15:11
  • Solomon
    1 Kings 11:3,4
  • Peter
    Matthew 26:70-74