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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
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