Bible Verses About Backslider
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for backslider, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,122 votes, led by Proverbs 14:14. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Backslider
Proverbs 14:14242 votes
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
Jeremiah 3:22173 votes
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God.
2 Peter 2:20-22163 votes
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Hebrews 10:38-39132 votes
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Revelation 2:4-5113 votes
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Luke 9:62112 votes
And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Hosea 14:4109 votes
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
2 Chronicles 7:14104 votes
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Jeremiah 14:798 votes
O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
Hebrews 6:4-692 votes
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
Proverbs 26:1191 votes
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
Hosea 11:784 votes
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
Galatians 4:966 votes
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Jeremiah 8:561 votes
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
1 John 1:955 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Luke 15:11-3253 votes
And he said, A certain man had two sons:
Galatians 6:137 votes
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Hebrews 10:26-3137 votes
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Hosea 4:1636 votes
For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
James 5:19-2036 votes
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
Jeremiah 3:1228 votes
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever.
Jeremiah 3:1425 votes
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
Jeremiah 2:1922 votes
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.
Psalms 80:320 votes
Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Isaiah 1:416 votes
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
What does the Bible say about backslider?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 14:14 on the subject of backslider. Across 2,122 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Jeremiah 3:22, 2 Peter 2:20-22, Hebrews 10:38-39. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.