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Want to know what the Bible says about Backsliding? Here are 96 Bible verses about Backsliding from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Isaiah 30:15 NIV
This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says:
“In repentance and rest is your salvation,
    in quietness and trust is your strength,
    but you would have none of it.
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Lamentations 3:22 NIV
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
    for his compassions never fail.
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John 6:66 NIV
From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
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Jeremiah 5:6 NIV
Therefore a lion from the forest will attack them,
    a wolf from the desert will ravage them,
a leopard will lie in wait near their towns
    to tear to pieces any who venture out,
for their rebellion is great
    and their backslidings many.
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2 Timothy 2:15 NIV
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
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Isaiah 59:2 NIV
But your iniquities have separated
    you from your God;
your sins have hidden his face from you,
    so that he will not hear.
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2 Chronicles 19:4 NIV
Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the Lord, the God of their ancestors.
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Hosea 6:1 NIV
“Come, let us return to the Lord.
He has torn us to pieces
    but he will heal us;
he has injured us
    but he will bind up our wounds.
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1 Timothy 5:15 NIV
Some have in fact already turned away to follow Satan.
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2 Corinthians 11:3 NIV
But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
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