Nave’s Topical Bible
Backsliders
196 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- General scriptures concerning
Leviticus 26:14-42; Deuteronomy 4:9; Deuteronomy 8:11-14; Deuteronomy 28:15-68; Deuteronomy 29:18-28; Deuteronomy 32:15-30; Joshua 24:20-27; 1 Kings 9:6-9; 2 Chronicles 15:2-4; Ezra 8:22; Job 34:26-27; Psalms 44:20-21; Psalms 73:27; Psalms 85:8; Psalms 125:5; Proverbs 2:17; Proverbs 14:14; Proverbs 24:16; Proverbs 26:11; Jeremiah 17:13; Ezekiel 3:20; Ezekiel 18:24,26; Ezekiel 23:35; Ezekiel 33:12-13,18; Hosea 11:7-8; Jonah 2:4; Matthew 5:13; Matthew 12:45; Matthew 24:12; Matthew 26:31; Mark 4:7,15-19; Mark 8:38; Mark 9:50; Luke 9:62; Luke 11:21-26; Luke 17:32; John 6:67; John 15:6; 1 Corinthians 10:1-13; 2 Corinthians 12:20-21; Galatians 1:6-7; Galatians 3:1; Galatians 4:9,11; Galatians 5:7; 1 Timothy 1:19; 1 Timothy 5:15; 1 Timothy 6:10,20-21; 2 Timothy 1:8; 2 Timothy 2:12; 2 Timothy 4:10; Hebrews 3:12-13; Hebrews 4:1,11; Hebrews 5:11-12; Hebrews 6:4-8; Hebrews 10:26-29,38-39; Hebrews 11:14-15; Hebrews 12:15; 2 Peter 1:9; 2 Peter 2:20-21; 2 John 1:9; Revelation 2:4-5,21; Revelation 3:2-3; Revelation 21:8
See APOSTASY
See BACKSLIDING OF ISRAEL, blow
See REPROBACY
- INSTANCES OF
- Saul
- Solomon
- Amon
- Rehoboam
- Asa
- Joash
- Amaziah
- Syrians
- Jonah
- The disciples
- Peter
- Corinthian Christians
- Galatians
Galatians 1:6; Galatians 3:1; Galatians 4:9-11; Galatians 5:6-7
- Hymenaeus and Alexander
- Phygellus and Hermogenes
- Demas
- Churches of Asia
1 Timothy 5:15; Revelation 2:4,14-15,20; Revelation 3:2-3,15-18
- PROMISES TO
Leviticus 26:40-42; Deuteronomy 4:29-30; Deuteronomy 30:1-10; Deuteronomy 32:26,28-29; 1 Kings 8:33-53; 2 Chronicles 30:9; Job 22:23-30; Psalms 17:5; Psalms 56:13; Psalms 81:13-14; Isaiah 42:3; Isaiah 57:18-19; Jeremiah 3:4-7,12-22; Jeremiah 4:1-2,14; Jeremiah 6:16; Hosea 14:4; Zechariah 10:6; Malachi 3:7; Matthew 23:37; Revelation 3:8,15-21
- RETURN OF
Psalms 80:3-7,14-19; Isaiah 17:7; Isaiah 29:24; Isaiah 31:6-7; Jeremiah 50:4-6; Hosea 3:5; Hosea 6:1-3
- INSTANCES OF
- Jews
- Jonah
- Peter
- Thomas
- BACKSLIDING OF ISRAEL
Exodus 17:7; Numbers 14:43; Deuteronomy 4:25-31; Deuteronomy 31:16-30; Deuteronomy 32:5-6,15,18; Judges 2:12; Judges 10:12-14; 2 Chronicles 24:20; 2 Kings 18:1,12; 2 Chronicles 13:11; 2 Chronicles 27:2; 2 Chronicles 29:6,8; Ezra 9:10,13-14; Nehemiah 9:26; Psalms 78:10-11,40-43,56-64; Psalms 106:13-14; Isaiah 1:4-7,21-22; Isaiah 2:6; Isaiah 5:12-30; Isaiah 9:13-21; Isaiah 17:10-11; Isaiah 24:5-6; Isaiah 30:9,15; Isaiah 31:6; Isaiah 43:22,24; Isaiah 50:1; Isaiah 51:17-20; Isaiah 63:17; Isaiah 65:2-3; Jeremiah 2:5,11-13,17,19,21,27,31-32; Jeremiah 3:1-25; Jeremiah 5:1-31; Jeremiah 6:30; Jeremiah 7:12-34; Jeremiah 8:1-22; Jeremiah 10:17-22; Jeremiah 11:9-17; Jeremiah 12:7; Jeremiah 13:24-25; Jeremiah 14:7,10; Jeremiah 15:1-14; Jeremiah 18:13-15; Jeremiah 19; Jeremiah 32:30-31; Jeremiah 50:6; Ezekiel 2:3-8; Ezekiel 5:1-17; Ezekiel 11:1-21; Ezekiel 15; Ezekiel 16:43; Ezekiel 22:18; Ezekiel 23; Hosea 1:1-9; Hosea 2; Hosea 3; Hosea 4:6,10,16; Hosea 5:1-15; Hosea 6:4-11; Hosea 8:14; Hosea 9:1-17; Hosea 11:2,7; Hosea 13:16; Hosea 14:1; Amos 2:4; Zephaniah 1:6; Malachi 1:6; Malachi 3:7; Hebrews 3:16-18
- INSTANCES OF ISRAEL'S BACKSLIDING
- At Meribah
- When Aaron made the golden calf
- After Joshua's death
- During Asa's reign
- Hezekiah's reign
Bible verses about “Backsliders”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Leviticus 26:14But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
- Leviticus 26:15And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
- Leviticus 26:16I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
- Leviticus 26:17And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
- Leviticus 26:18And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:19And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
- Leviticus 26:20And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
- Leviticus 26:21And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
- Leviticus 26:22I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
- Leviticus 26:23And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
- Leviticus 26:24Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:25And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
- Leviticus 26:26And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
- Leviticus 26:27And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
- Leviticus 26:28Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:29And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
- Leviticus 26:30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
- Leviticus 26:31And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
- Leviticus 26:32And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
- Leviticus 26:33And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
- Leviticus 26:34Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
- Leviticus 26:35As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
- Leviticus 26:36And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
- Leviticus 26:37And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
- Leviticus 26:38And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
- Leviticus 26:39And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
- Leviticus 26:40If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
- Leviticus 26:41And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
- Leviticus 26:42Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
- Deuteronomy 4:9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
- Deuteronomy 8:11Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
- Deuteronomy 8:12Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
- Deuteronomy 8:13And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
- Deuteronomy 8:14Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
- Deuteronomy 28:15But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
- Deuteronomy 28:16Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
- Deuteronomy 28:17Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
- Deuteronomy 28:18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
- Deuteronomy 28:19Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
- Deuteronomy 28:20The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.