What does the Bible say about backslider?

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• Proverbs 14:14

  The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; Likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

• Jeremiah 3:22

  Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. Behold, we are come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.

• 2 Peter 2:20-22

  [20] For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first. [21] For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. [22] But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire."

• Hebrews 10:38-39

  [38] But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him." [39] But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

• Revelation 2:4-5

  [4] But I have this against you, that you left your first love. [5] Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.

• Luke 9:62

  But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."

• Hosea 14:4

  "I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; For my anger is turned away from him.

• 2 Chronicles 7:14

  if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

• Jeremiah 14:7

  Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

• Hebrews 6:4-6

  [4] For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, [5] and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, [6] and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

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