Bible Verses About Backsliding
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for backsliding, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,359 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 Backsliding
Proverbs 14:14318 votes
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
Hebrews 6:4-6244 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,
2 Peter 2:20-22243 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.
Luke 9:62216 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.
Jeremiah 14:7211 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.
1 John 1:9197 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Jeremiah 3:22192 votes
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God.
Hosea 11:7182 votes
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
Jeremiah 8:5154 votes
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Hebrews 10:38-39144 votes
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Hosea 14:4138 votes
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
Proverbs 24:16132 votes
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Revelation 2:4-5130 votes
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
2 Corinthians 13:5127 votes
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
2 Chronicles 7:14110 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 3:1-25109 votes
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:19108 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.
Galatians 4:996 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?
1 Corinthians 10:1293 votes
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Galatians 6:183 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.
John 15:1-775 votes
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Hosea 14:1-974 votes
O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
Jeremiah 24:767 votes
And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
Revelation 2:1-4:1165 votes
Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
James 5:19-2063 votes
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
What does the Bible say about backsliding?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 14:14 on the subject of backsliding. Across 5,359 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 6:4-6, 2 Peter 2:20-22, Luke 9:62. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.