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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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2 Timothy 1:7 NIV
For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
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Galatians 4:9 NIV
But now that you know God—or rather are known by God —how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces ? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
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Isaiah 31:6 NIV
Return, you Israelites, to the One you have so greatly revolted against.
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2 Peter 1:9 NIV
But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.
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Psalm 125:5 NIV
But those who turn to crooked ways
    the Lord will banish with the evildoers.
Peace be on Israel.
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1 John 2:19 NIV
They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
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Hosea 5:15 NIV
Then I will return to my lair
    until they have borne their guilt
    and seek my face
in their misery
    they will earnestly seek me.
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Psalm 85:8 NIV
I will listen to what God the Lord says;
    he promises peace to his people, his faithful servants—
    but let them not turn to folly.
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Ecclesiastes 10:1 NIV
As dead flies give perfume a bad smell,
    so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
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