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Want to know what the Bible says about Backsliders? Here are 201 Bible verses about Backsliders 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 Chronicles 15:2-4 NIV
2 He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. 3 For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach and without the law. 4 But in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, and he was found by them.
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Ezra 9:14 NIV
Shall we then break your commands again and intermarry with the peoples who commit such detestable practices? Would you not be angry enough with us to destroy us, leaving us no remnant or survivor?
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Isaiah 43:22 NIV
“Yet you have not called on me, Jacob,
    you have not wearied yourselves for me, Israel.
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Psalm 106:14 NIV
In the desert they gave in to their craving;
    in the wilderness they put God to the test.
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Isaiah 31:7 NIV
For in that day every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold your sinful hands have made.
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Psalm 54:4-7 NIV
4 Surely God is my help;
    the Lord is the one who sustains me.
5 Let evil recoil on those who slander me;
    in your faithfulness destroy them.
6 I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you;
    I will praise your name, Lord, for it is good.
7 You have delivered me from all my troubles,
    and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.
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Isaiah 50:1 NIV
This is what the Lord says:
“Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce
    with which I sent her away?
Or to which of my creditors
    did I sell you?
Because of your sins you were sold;
    because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.
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Isaiah 51:17-20 NIV
17 Awake, awake!
    Rise up, Jerusalem,
you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord
    the cup of his wrath,
you who have drained to its dregs
    the goblet that makes people stagger.
18 Among all the children she bore
    there was none to guide her;
among all the children she reared
    there was none to take her by the hand.
19 These double calamities have come upon you—
    who can comfort you?
ruin and destruction, famine and sword
    who can console you?
20 Your children have fainted;
    they lie at every street corner,
    like antelope caught in a net.
They are filled with the wrath of the Lord,
    with the rebuke of your God.
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Isaiah 63:17 NIV
Why, Lord, do you make us wander from your ways
    and harden our hearts so we do not revere you?
Return for the sake of your servants,
    the tribes that are your inheritance.
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2 Kings 18:12 NIV
This happened because they had not obeyed the Lord their God, but had violated his covenant —all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. They neither listened to the commands nor carried them out.
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