Backsliding
Is turning from God -- 1Ki 11:9. Is leaving the first love -- Re 2:4. Is departing form the simplicity of the gospel -- 2Co 11:3; Ga 3:1-3; 5:4,7. God is displeased at -- Ps 78:57,59. Warnings against -- Ps 85:8; 1Co 10:12. Guilt and consequences of -- Nu 14:43; Ps 125:5; Isa 59:2,9-11; Jer 5:6; 8:5,13; 15:6; Lu 9:62. Brings its own punishment -- Pr 14:14; Jer 2:19. A haughty spirit leads to -- Pr 16:18. Proneness to -- Pr 24:16; Ho 11:7. Liable to continue and increase -- Jer 8:5; 14:7. Exhortations to return from -- 2Ch 30:6; Isa 31:6; Jer 3:12,14,22; Ho 6:1. Pray to be restored from -- Ps 80:3; 85:4; La 5:21. Punishment of tempting others to the sin of -- Pr 28:10; Mt 18:6. Not hopeless -- Ps 37:24; Pr 24:16. Endeavour to bring back those guilty of -- Ga 6:1; Jas 5:19,20. Sin of, to be confessed -- Isa 59:12-14; Jer 3:13,14; 14:7-9. Pardon of, promised -- 2Ch 7:14; Jer 3:12; 31:20; 36:3. Healing of, promised -- Jer 3:22; Ho 14:4. Afflictions sent to heal -- Ho 5:15. Blessedness of those who keep from -- Pr 28:14; Isa 26:3,4; Col 1:21-23. Hateful to saints -- Ps 101:3. Exemplified Israel. -- Ex 32:8; Ne 9:26; Jer 3:11; Ho 4:16. Saul. -- 1Sa 15:11. Solomon. -- 1Ki 11:3,4. Peter. -- Mt 26:70-74.