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Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,BLESSING,MERIBAH,REPHIDIM,WATER
Description: Exodus 17:1
NET Translation: The whole community of the Israelites traveled on their journey from the wilderness of Sin according to the Lord’s instruction, and they pitched camp in Rephidim. Now there was no water for the people to drink.
DARBY Translation: And all the assembly of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, according to their journeys, at the commandD513 of Jehovah; and they encamped in Rephidim; and there was no water for the people to drink.
KJV Translation: And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and [there was] no water for the people to drink.
Verse Intro: Water from the Rock
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CHIDING,INFIDELITY,MASSAH,MIRACLES,PRESUMPTION
Description: Exodus 17:7
NET Translation: He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the Israelites and because of their testing the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
DARBY Translation: And he called the name of the place MassahD515, and MeribahD516, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they had temptedD517 Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not?
KJV Translation: And he called the name of the place MassahK403, and MeribahK404, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
Keywords: AARON,APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,CALF,ISRAEL,REVELATION,FALSEHOOD,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS,TROUBLE
Description: Exodus 32:1
NET Translation: When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Get up, make us gods that will go before us. As for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him!”
DARBY Translation: And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people collected together to Aaron, and said to him, Up, make us a godD643, who will go before us; for this Moses, the man that has brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what is become of him!
KJV Translation: And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for [as for] this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Verse Intro: The Golden Calf
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD,JUDGMENTS,PUNISHMENT,SIN,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Leviticus 26:14
NET Translation: “‘If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments—
DARBY Translation: But if ye hearken not unto me, and do not all these commandments,
KJV Translation: But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
Verse Intro: Punishment for Disobedience
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,GOD,PENITENT,PRAYER,REPENTANCE,SIN
Description: Leviticus 26:40
NET Translation: However, when they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquities which they committed by trespassing against me, by which they also walked in hostility against me
DARBY Translation: And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfulness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary unto me,
KJV Translation: If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: Numbers 14:43
NET Translation: For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.”
DARBY Translation: for the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; for as ye have turned away fromD1011 Jehovah, Jehovah will not be with you.
KJV Translation: For the Amalekites and the Canaanites [are] there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CHILDREN,COMMANDMENTS,DILIGENCE,FAMILY,INSTRUCTION,PARENTS,SCHOOL,WATCHFULNESS
Description: Deuteronomy 4:9
NET Translation: Again, however, pay very careful attention, lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.
DARBY Translation: Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things that thine eyes have seen (and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but thou shalt make them known to thy sons and to thy sons' sons),
KJV Translation: Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,IDOLATRY
Description: Deuteronomy 4:25
NET Translation: After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind and do other evil things before the Lord your God that enrage him,
DARBY Translation: When thou begettest sons, and sons' sons, and ye have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, the form of anything, and do evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, to provoke him to anger,
KJV Translation: When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt [yourselves], and make a graven image, [or] the likeness of any [thing], and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,DESIRE,PENITENT,PRAYER,REPENTANCE,SEEKERS
Description: Deuteronomy 4:29
NET Translation: But if you seek the Lord your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.
DARBY Translation: And from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt find him, if thou shalt seek him with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul.
KJV Translation: But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find [him], if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,BACKSLIDERS
Description: Deuteronomy 4:30
NET Translation: In your distress when all these things happen to you in future days, if you return to the Lord your God and obey him
DARBY Translation: In thy tribulation, and when all these things shall come upon thee, at the end of days, thou shalt return to Jehovah thy God, and shalt hearken to his voice,
KJV Translation: When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon theeK781, [even] in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,FORGETTING GOD,OBEDIENCE,PRIDE,TEMPTATION
Description: Deuteronomy 8:11
NET Translation: Be sure you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments, ordinances, and statutes that I am giving you today.
DARBY Translation: Beware that thou forget not Jehovah thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command thee this day;
KJV Translation: Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,BACKSLIDERS,DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD,HOLY SPIRIT,IDOLATRY,JUDGMENTS,REPROBACY,SANITATION,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Deuteronomy 28:15
NET Translation: “But if you ignore the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:
DARBY Translation: But it shall come to pass if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to take heed to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee.
KJV Translation: But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
Verse Intro: Curses as Reversal of Blessings
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CONFIDENCE,FAMILY,GALL,HEART,SIN,WORMWOOD
Description: Deuteronomy 29:18
NET Translation: Beware that the heart of no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you turns away from the Lord our God today to pursue and serve the gods of those nations; beware that there is among you no root producing poisonous and bitter fruit.
DARBY Translation: lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood,
KJV Translation: Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gallK895and wormwood;
Keywords: MOAB,AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,BACKSLIDERS,BLESSING,PENITENT,REPENTANCE
Description: Deuteronomy 30:1
NET Translation: “When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses I have set before you, you will reflect upon them in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you.
DARBY Translation: And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt take them to heart among all the nations whither Jehovah thy God hath driven thee,
KJV Translation: And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call [them] to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
Verse Intro: Review of Results of Obedience
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,DEATH,FELLOWSHIP,IDOLATRY,INGRATITUDE,WHOREDOM
Description: Deuteronomy 31:16
NET Translation: Then the Lord said to Moses, “You are about to die, and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they are going. They will reject me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
DARBY Translation: And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the strange gods of the land into which they enter, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
KJV Translation: And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleepK901with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go [to be] among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Keywords: ADOPTION,BACKSLIDERS,CHARACTER,GOD
Description: Deuteronomy 32:5
NET Translation: His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children—this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.
DARBY Translation: They have dealt corruptly with him; Not his children's is their spotD1374: A crooked and perverted generation!
KJV Translation: They have corrupted themselvesK905, their spot [is] not [the spot] of his children: [they are] a perverse and crooked generation.
Keywords: ADOPTION,BACKSLIDERS,CHARACTER,GOD,INGRATITUDE,OBLIGATION
Description: Deuteronomy 32:6
NET Translation: Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish, unwise people? Is he not your father, your Creator? He has made you and established you.
DARBY Translation: Do ye thus requite Jehovah, Foolish and unwise people? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? Hath he not made thee and established thee?
KJV Translation: Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? [is] not he thy father [that] hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,GOD,GODLESSNESS,IDOLATRY,INFIDELITY,INGRATITUDE,JESHURUN,PROSPERITY,REPROOF,RICHES,SALVATION
Description: Deuteronomy 32:15
NET Translation: But Jeshurun became fat and kicked; you got fat, thick, and stuffed! Then he deserted the God who made him, and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.
DARBY Translation: Then JeshurunD1378 grew fat, and kicked Thou art waxen fat, Thou art grown thick, And thou art covered with fatness; He gave up GodD1379 who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
KJV Translation: But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered [with fatness]; then he forsook God [which] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Verse Intro: Israel's Rebellion
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,GOD,INGRATITUDE,JESUS THE CHRIST
Description: Deuteronomy 32:18
NET Translation: You forgot the Rock who fathered you, and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.
DARBY Translation: Of the Rock that begot thee wast thou unmindful, And thou hast forgotten God who brought thee forthD1380.
KJV Translation: Of the Rock [that] begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: Deuteronomy 32:26
NET Translation: “I said, ‘I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed.
DARBY Translation: I would say, I will scatter, I will make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,
KJV Translation: I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
Verse Intro: Other God's are Useless
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,BLINDNESS
Description: Deuteronomy 32:28
NET Translation: They are a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding among them.
DARBY Translation: For they are a nation void of counsel, And understanding is not in them.
KJV Translation: For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,BLINDNESS,DEATH,GOD,REPENTANCE,WAR,WICKED (PEOPLE),WISDOM
Description: Deuteronomy 32:29
NET Translation: I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.”
DARBY Translation: Oh that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end!
KJV Translation: O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would consider their latter end!
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: Joshua 24:20
NET Translation: If you abandon the Lord and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you; he will bring disaster on you and destroy you, though he once treated you well.”
DARBY Translation: If ye forsake Jehovah, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
KJV Translation: If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,ANGEL (a spirit),ANGEL (Holy Trinity),COMPANY,COVENANT,GOD,ISRAEL,REPENTANCE
Description: Judges 2:1
NET Translation: The angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bokim. He said, “I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land I had solemnly promised to give to your ancestors. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,
DARBY Translation: And the Angel of Jehovah came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you; and as for you,
KJV Translation: And an angelK1037of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
Verse Intro: Israel's Disobedience
Keywords: ANGER,BACKSLIDERS
Description: Judges 2:12
NET Translation: They abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods—the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped them and made the Lord angry.
DARBY Translation: And they forsook Jehovah the God of their fathers, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods of the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked Jehovah to anger.
KJV Translation: And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that [were] round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: Judges 10:12
NET Translation: the Sidonians, Amalek, and Midian when they oppressed you? You cried out for help to me, and I delivered you from their power.
DARBY Translation: The Zidonians also, and Amalek and Maon oppressed you, and ye cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
KJV Translation: The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,REPENTANCE,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: 1 Samuel 15:11
NET Translation: “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from me and has not done what I told him to do.” Samuel became angry and he cried out to the Lord all that night.
DARBY Translation: It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned away from following me, and hath not fulfilled my words. And Samuel was much grieved; and he cried to Jehovah all night.
KJV Translation: It repenteth me that I have set up Saul [to be] king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,GOD,GOVERNMENT
Description: 1 Samuel 15:26
NET Translation: Samuel said to Saul, “I will not go back with you, for you have rejected the Lord’s orders, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel!”
DARBY Translation: And Samuel said to Saul, I will not turn again with thee; for thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, and Jehovah has rejected thee from being king over Israel.
KJV Translation: And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,BACKSLIDERS,REPENTANCE
Description: 1 Kings 8:33
NET Translation: “The time will come when your people Israel are defeated by an enemy because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, and pray for your help in this temple,
DARBY Translation: When thy people Israel are put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house;
KJV Translation: When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have s inK1841ned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,IDOLATRY
Description: 1 Kings 9:6
NET Translation: “But if you or your sons ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods,
DARBY Translation: [But] if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments, my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them;
KJV Translation: [But] if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments [and] my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CHARACTER,INFLUENCE,PERFECTION,POLYGAMY,SOLOMON,TEMPTATION,WIFE
Description: 1 Kings 11:4
NET Translation: When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.
DARBY Translation: And it came to pass when Solomon was old, [that] his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father.
KJV Translation: For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, [that] his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as [was] the heart of David his father.
Verse Intro: Solomon Shifts Allegiance to Other Gods
Keywords: ISAIAH,BACKSLIDERS,HEZEKIAH,PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,REVIVALS
Description: 2 Kings 18:1
NET Translation: In the third year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea son of Elah, Ahaz’s son Hezekiah became king over Judah.
DARBY Translation: And it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah, king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign.
KJV Translation: Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, [that] Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
Verse Intro: Hezekiah's Reign Over Judah
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: 2 Kings 18:12
NET Translation: This happened because they did not obey the Lord their God and broke his covenant with them. They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded.
DARBY Translation: because they hearkened not to the voice of Jehovah their God, but transgressed his covenant, all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded; and they would not hear nor do it.
KJV Translation: Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, [and] all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear [them], nor do [them].
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: 2 Kings 21:22
NET Translation: He abandoned the Lord, God of his ancestors, and did not follow the Lord’s instructions.
DARBY Translation: and he forsook Jehovah the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of Jehovah.
KJV Translation: And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CITIZENS,CONSPIRACY,HOMICIDE,SERVANT
Description: 2 Kings 21:23
NET Translation: Amon’s servants conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.
DARBY Translation: And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
KJV Translation: And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
Keywords: PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,BACKSLIDERS,CHARACTER,INGRATITUDE,PROSPERITY,REHOBOAM,REPENTANCE,WAR
Description: 2 Chronicles 12:1
NET Translation: After Rehoboam’s rule was established and solidified, he and all Israel rejected the law of the Lord.
DARBY Translation: And it came to pass when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and when he had become strong, [that] he forsook the law of Jehovah, and all Israel with him.
KJV Translation: And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.
Verse Intro: Egypt Attacks and Plunders Jerusalem
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CHARIOT,EGYPTIANS,GOD,SHISHAK
Description: 2 Chronicles 12:2
NET Translation: Because they were unfaithful to the Lord, in King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.
DARBY Translation: And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, because they had transgressedD2546 against Jehovah, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,
KJV Translation: And it came to pass, [that] in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,DECISION,FAITH,INCENSE,OFFERINGS,PRIEST
Description: 2 Chronicles 13:11
NET Translation: They offer burnt sacrifices to the Lord every morning and every evening, along with fragrant incense. They arrange the Bread of the Presence on a ritually clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. Certainly we are observing the Lord our God’s regulations, but you have rejected him.
DARBY Translation: and they burn to Jehovah every morning and every evening burnt-offerings and sweet incense; the loaves also are set in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with its lamps to burn every evening: for *we* keep the charge of Jehovah our God; but *ye* have forsaken him.
KJV Translation: And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also [set they in order] upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.
Keywords: ASA,BACKSLIDERS,PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,RELIGION,AZARIAH,COURAGE,HOLY SPIRIT,ODED,PRAYER,PREACHING,PROPHETS,REPENTANCE,REVIVALS
Description: 2 Chronicles 15:1
NET Translation: God’s Spirit came upon Azariah son of Oded.
DARBY Translation: And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded.
KJV Translation: And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
Verse Intro: Asa's Reforms and Accomplishments
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,GOD,REPROOF,SEEKERS,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: 2 Chronicles 15:2
NET Translation: He met Asa and told him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are loyal to him. If you seek him, he will respond to you, but if you reject him, he will reject you.
DARBY Translation: And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah is with you while ye are with him; and if ye seek him he will be found of you, but if ye forsake him he will forsake you.
KJV Translation: And he went out to meet AsaK2567, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD [is] with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CONFIDENCE,FALSE CONFIDENCE,GOD,HANANI,PREACHING,REPROOF
Description: 2 Chronicles 16:7
NET Translation: At that time Hanani the prophet visited King Asa of Judah and said to him: “Because you relied on the king of Syria and did not rely on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.
DARBY Translation: And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and hast not relied on Jehovah thy God, therefore has the army of the king of Syria escaped out of thy hand.
KJV Translation: And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.
Keywords: AZARIAH,BACKSLIDERS,HOLY SPIRIT,JOASH,PROPHETS,REPROOF,SIN,ZECHARIAH (ZECHARIAS)
Description: 2 Chronicles 24:20
NET Translation: God’s Spirit energized Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why are you violating the commands of the Lord? You will not be prosperous. Because you have rejected the Lord, he has rejected you!’”
DARBY Translation: And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood up above the people and said unto them, Thus saith God: Wherefore do ye transgress the commandments of Jehovah? And ye cannot prosper; for ye have forsaken Jehovah, and he hath forsaken you.
KJV Translation: And the Spirit of God came uponK2633Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,JOASH,WAR
Description: 2 Chronicles 24:24
NET Translation: Even though the invading Syrian army was relatively weak, the Lord handed over to them Judah’s very large army, for the people of Judah had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. The Syrians gave Joash what he deserved.
DARBY Translation: Truly with a small company of men came the army of the Syrians, but Jehovah delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Jehovah the God of their fathers; and they executed judgment upon Joash.
KJV Translation: For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,CONSPIRACY
Description: 2 Chronicles 25:27
NET Translation: From the time Amaziah turned from following the Lord, conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him and they killed him there.
DARBY Translation: And from the time that Amaziah turned aside from following Jehovah, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish; and they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
KJV Translation: Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from followingK2650the LORD they made a conspiracyK2651against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: 2 Chronicles 27:2
NET Translation: He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done. (He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.) Yet the people were still sinning.
DARBY Translation: And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his father Uzziah had done; only he entered not into the temple of Jehovah. And the people still acted corruptlyD2603.
KJV Translation: And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,REPENTANCE,SIN
Description: 2 Chronicles 29:6
NET Translation: For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of the Lord our God and abandoned him. They turned away from the Lord’s dwelling place and rejected him.
DARBY Translation: For our fathers have transgressed, and done evil in the sight of Jehovah our God, and have forsaken him and turned away their faces from the habitationD2612 of Jehovah, and have turned their backs.
KJV Translation: For our fathers have trespassed, and done [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned [their] backs.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: 2 Chronicles 29:8
NET Translation: The Lord was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.
DARBY Translation: Therefore the wrath of Jehovah has been upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to vexationD2613, to desolation, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
KJV Translation: Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to troubleK2676, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,FORM,KING,PASSOVER
Description: 2 Chronicles 30:2
NET Translation: The king, his officials, and the entire assembly in Jerusalem decided to observe the Passover in the second month.
DARBY Translation: And the king took counsel, and his princes, and the whole congregation in Jerusalem, to hold the passover in the second month.
KJV Translation: For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,BLESSING,GOD
Description: 2 Chronicles 30:9
NET Translation: For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and sons will be shown mercy by their captors and return to this land. The Lord your God is merciful and compassionate; he will not reject you if you return to him.”
DARBY Translation: For if ye return to Jehovah, your brethren and your children shall find compassion with those that have carried them captive, so that they shall come again unto this land; for Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return to him.
KJV Translation: For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children [shall find] compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn away [his] face from you, if ye return unto him.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,DEDICATION,JOY
Description: Ezra 6:16
NET Translation: The people of Israel—the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles—observed the dedication of this temple of God with joy.
DARBY Translation: And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy;
KJV Translation: And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivityK2830, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy,
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,BLESSING,COURAGE,FAITH,GOD,POWER,RIGHTEOUS,SEEKERS
Description: Ezra 8:22
NET Translation: I was embarrassed to request soldiers and horsemen from the king to protect us from the enemy along the way, because we had said to the king, “The good hand of our God is on everyone who is seeking him, but his great anger is against everyone who forsakes him.”
DARBY Translation: For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way; for we had spoken to the king saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his anger is against all them that forsake him.
KJV Translation: For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God [is] upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath [is] against all them that forsake him.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,REPENTANCE,SIN
Description: Ezra 9:10
NET Translation: “And now what are we able to say after this, our God? For we have forsaken your commandments
DARBY Translation: And now, what shall we say, our God, after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
KJV Translation: And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,BACKSLIDERS,HUMILITY,REPENTANCE
Description: Ezra 9:13
NET Translation: “Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this.
DARBY Translation: And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespassD2712, seeing that thou our God hast punished us lessD2713 than our iniquities [deserve], and hast given us such deliverance as this,
KJV Translation: And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities [deserve], and hast given us [such] deliverance as this;
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,COMPANY,FELLOWSHIP,REPENTANCE
Description: Ezra 9:14
NET Translation: Shall we once again break your commandments and intermarry with these abominable peoples? Would you not be so angered by us that you would wipe us out, with no survivor or remnant?
DARBY Translation: should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples of these abominations? wouldest thou not be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor any to escape?
KJV Translation: Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed [us], so that [there should be] no remnant nor escaping?
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,EZRA,PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,REPENTANCE,RELIGIOUS ZEAL,CHURCH,DIVORCE,INFLUENCE,PRAYER
Description: Ezra 10:1
NET Translation: While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself to the ground before the temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelites—men, women, and children alike—gathered around him. The people wept loudly.
DARBY Translation: And while Ezra prayed, and made confession, weeping and falling down before the house of God, there were gathered to him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children; for the people wept very much.
KJV Translation: Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very soreK2853.
Verse Intro: The People Confess Their Sins
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CHARACTER
Description: Nehemiah 9:26
NET Translation: “Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.
DARBY Translation: But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
KJV Translation: Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Keywords: AMMONITES,BACKSLIDERS,GOD,MARRIAGE,SOLOMON,TEMPTATION,WIFE,WOMEN
Description: Nehemiah 13:26
NET Translation: Was it not because of things like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!
DARBY Translation: Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among the many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; but even him did foreign wives cause to sin.
KJV Translation: Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,PENITENT,PROSPERITY,REPENTANCE
Description: Job 22:23
NET Translation: If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; if you remove wicked behavior far from your tent,
DARBY Translation: If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. If thou remove unrighteousness far from thy tents,
KJV Translation: If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: Job 34:26
NET Translation: He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,
DARBY Translation: He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others,
KJV Translation: He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of othersK3352;
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: Job 34:27
NET Translation: because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,
DARBY Translation: Because they have turned back from him, and would consider none of his ways;
KJV Translation: Because they turned back from himK3353, and would not consider any of his ways:
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: Psalms 17:5
NET Translation: I carefully obey your commands; I do not deviate from them.
DARBY Translation: When thou holdest my goings in thy pathsD3276, my footsteps slip not.
KJV Translation: Hold up my goings in thy paths, [that] my footsteps slip notK3489.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,IDOLATRY,SIN
Description: Psalms 44:20
NET Translation: If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,
DARBY Translation: If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange God,
KJV Translation: If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,GOD,HEART,IDOLATRY,SECRET,SIN
Description: Psalms 44:21
NET Translation: would not God discover it, for he knows a person’s secret thoughts?
DARBY Translation: Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
KJV Translation: Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,THANKFULNESS
Description: Psalms 56:13
NET Translation: when you deliver my life from death. You keep my feet from stumbling, so that I might serve God as I enjoy life.
DARBY Translation: For thou hast delivered my soul from death; [wilt thou] not [keep] my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
KJV Translation: For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [wilt] not [thou deliver] my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Psalms 73:27
NET Translation: Yes, look! Those far from you die; you destroy everyone who is unfaithful to you.
DARBY Translation: For behold, they that are far from thee shall perish; thou destroyest every one that goeth a whoring from thee.
KJV Translation: For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,MIRACLES,SELF-WILL
Description: Psalms 78:10
NET Translation: They did not keep their covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.
DARBY Translation: They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
KJV Translation: They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,FORGETTING GOD
Description: Psalms 78:11
NET Translation: They forgot what he had done, the amazing things he had shown them.
DARBY Translation: And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.
KJV Translation: And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: Psalms 78:40
NET Translation: How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands.
DARBY Translation: How oft did they provokeD3705 him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
KJV Translation: How oft did they provoke himK3845in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert!
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: Psalms 78:56
NET Translation: Yet they challenged and defied God Most High, and did not obey his commands.
DARBY Translation: But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,
KJV Translation: Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,BACKSLIDERS
Description: Psalms 80:3
NET Translation: O God, restore us. Smile on us. Then we will be delivered.
DARBY Translation: O God, restore us; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
KJV Translation: Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,BACKSLIDERS,INTERCESSION
Description: Psalms 80:14
NET Translation: O God of Heaven’s Armies, come back. Look down from heaven and take notice. Take care of this vine,
DARBY Translation: O God of hosts, return, we beseech thee; look down from the heavens, and behold, and visit this vine;
KJV Translation: Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,BLESSING,GOD
Description: Psalms 81:13
NET Translation: If only my people would obey me! If only Israel would keep my commands!
DARBY Translation: Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways!
KJV Translation: Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, [and] Israel had walked in my ways!
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: Psalms 81:14
NET Translation: Then I would quickly subdue their enemies, and attack their adversaries.”
DARBY Translation: I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
KJV Translation: I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,PEACE,WORD OF GOD
Description: Psalms 85:8
NET Translation: I will listen to what God the Lord says. For he will make peace with his people, his faithful followers. Yet they must not return to their foolish ways.
DARBY Translation: I will hear what God, Jehovah, will speak; for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his godly onesD3741: but let them not turn again to folly.
KJV Translation: I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
Keywords: AFFECTIONS,BACKSLIDERS,FORGETTING GOD,INSTABILITY
Description: Psalms 106:13
NET Translation: They quickly forgot what he had done; they did not wait for his instructions.
DARBY Translation: They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:
KJV Translation: They soon forgatK3963his works; they waited not for his counsel:
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,PRAYER
Description: Psalms 106:14
NET Translation: In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.
DARBY Translation: And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
KJV Translation: But lusted exceedinglyK3964in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,PEACE,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Psalms 125:5
NET Translation: As for those who are bent on traveling a sinful path, may the Lord remove them, along with those who behave wickedly. May Israel experience peace.
DARBY Translation: But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace beD4007 upon Israel!
KJV Translation: As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: [but] peace [shall be] upon Israel.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,FORGETTING GOD
Description: Proverbs 2:17
NET Translation: who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God.
DARBY Translation: who forsaketh the guideD4148 of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God;
KJV Translation: Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CONTENTMENT,PEACE
Description: Proverbs 14:14
NET Translation: The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.
DARBY Translation: The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man from what is in himself.
KJV Translation: The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,GOD
Description: Proverbs 24:16
NET Translation: Indeed a righteous person will fall seven times, and then get up again, but the guilty will collapse in calamity.
DARBY Translation: For the righteous falleth seven times, and riseth up again; but the wicked stumble into disasterD4403.
KJV Translation: For a just [man] falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,DOG (SODOMITE?),IMPENITENCE,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS,SIN,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Proverbs 26:11
NET Translation: Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
DARBY Translation: As a dog turneth back to its vomit, [so] a fool repeateth his folly.
KJV Translation: As a dog returneth to his vomit, [so] a fool returneth to his follyK4328.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Isaiah 1:4
NET Translation: Beware sinful nation, the people weighed down by evil deeds. They are offspring who do wrong, children who do wicked things. They have abandoned the Lord, and rejected the Holy One of Israel. They are alienated from him.
DARBY Translation: AhD4590 sinful nationD4591, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that corrupt themselves! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they are turned awayD4592 backward.
KJV Translation: Ah sinful nation, a people ladenK4504with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backwardK4505.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,SIN
Description: Isaiah 1:21
NET Translation: How tragic that the once-faithful city has become a prostitute! She was once a center of justice; fairness resided in her—but now only murderers!
DARBY Translation: How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers.
KJV Translation: How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
Verse Intro: Unfaithful Jerusalem to be Purified
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,DROSS
Description: Isaiah 1:22
NET Translation: Your silver has become scum, your beer is diluted with water.
DARBY Translation: Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is mixed with water:
KJV Translation: Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,IDOLATRY,ISAIAH
Description: Isaiah 2:6
NET Translation: Indeed, O Lord, you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. For diviners from the east are everywhere; they consult omen readers like the Philistines do. Plenty of foreigners are around.
DARBY Translation: For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled [with what comes] from the east, and use auguries like the Philistines, and ally themselvesD4606 with the children of foreigners.
KJV Translation: Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
Verse Intro: The Lord's Judgment - The Day of the Lord
Keywords: AMUSEMENTS AND WORLDLY PLEASURES,BACKSLIDERS,DRUNKENNESS,FEASTS,GODLESSNESS,HAPPINESS,HARP,MUSIC,PLEASURE,VIOL,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Isaiah 5:12
NET Translation: They have stringed instruments, tambourines, flutes, and wine at their parties. So they do not recognize what the Lord is doing, they do not perceive what he is bringing about.
DARBY Translation: And harp and lyreD4631, tambour and flute, and wine are in their banquets; but they regard not the workD4632 of Jehovah, nor do they see the operation of his hands.
KJV Translation: And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,BACKSLIDERS,ISAIAH
Description: Isaiah 9:13
NET Translation: The people did not return to the one who struck them, they did not seek reconciliation with the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
DARBY Translation: But the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, and they do not seek Jehovah of hosts.
KJV Translation: For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,GOD,IDOLATRY,MAN
Description: Isaiah 17:7
NET Translation: At that time men will trust in their Creator; they will depend on the Holy One of Israel.
DARBY Translation: In that day shall manD4739 look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have regard to the Holy One of Israel.
KJV Translation: At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,FORGETTING GOD,GODLESSNESS,ROCK
Description: Isaiah 17:10
NET Translation: For you ignore the God who rescues you; you pay no attention to your strong protector. So this is what happens: You cultivate beautiful plants and plant exotic vines.
DARBY Translation: For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plantations, and shalt set them with foreign slips:
KJV Translation: Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,FAMINE,FORGETTING GOD
Description: Isaiah 17:11
NET Translation: The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.
DARBY Translation: in the day of thy planting wilt thou make [them] to growD4741, and on the morrowD4742 wilt thou make thy seed to flourish; [but] the harvest will flee in the day of taking possession, and the sorrow will be incurableD4743.
KJV Translation: In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: [but] the harvest [shall be] a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,ORDINANCE
Description: Isaiah 24:5
NET Translation: The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have violated laws, disregarded the regulation, and broken the permanent treaty.
DARBY Translation: And the land is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; for they have violated the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.
KJV Translation: The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: Isaiah 24:6
NET Translation: So a treaty curse devours the earth; its inhabitants pay for their guilt. This is why the inhabitants of the earth disappear, and are reduced to just a handful of people.
DARBY Translation: Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are held guiltyD4794; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are consumed, and few men are left.
KJV Translation: Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,GOSPEL,SALVATION,WISDOM
Description: Isaiah 29:24
NET Translation: Those who stray morally will gain understanding; those who complain will acquire insight.
DARBY Translation: And they that are of erring spirit shall know understanding, and the disobedientD4850 shall learn doctrine.
KJV Translation: They also that erred in spirit shall come to understandingK4778, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CHARACTER,GODLESSNESS,WICKED (PEOPLE),WORD OF GOD
Description: Isaiah 30:9
NET Translation: For these are rebellious people—they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the Lord’s law.
DARBY Translation: that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;
KJV Translation: That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not hear the law of the LORD:
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CONFIDENCE,FAITH,WAR
Description: Isaiah 30:15
NET Translation: For this is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel says: “If you repented and patiently waited for me, you would be delivered; if you calmly trusted in me, you would find strength, but you are unwilling.
DARBY Translation: For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest shall ye be saved, in quietness and confidence shall be your strength; but ye would not.
KJV Translation: For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,REPENTANCE
Description: Isaiah 31:6
NET Translation: You Israelites! Return to the one you have so blatantly rebelled against!
DARBY Translation: Turn unto him from whom ye have deeply revoltedD4871, ye children of Israel;
KJV Translation: Turn ye unto [him from] whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,IDOL,IDOLATRY
Description: Isaiah 31:7
NET Translation: For at that time every one will get rid of the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made.
DARBY Translation: for in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which youD4872r sinful hands have made unto you.
KJV Translation: For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of goldK4799, which your own hands have made unto you [for] a sin.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,BACKSLIDERS,FLAX,JESUS THE CHRIST,REED
Description: Isaiah 42:3
NET Translation: A crushed reed he will not break, a dim wick he will not extinguish; he will faithfully make just decrees.
DARBY Translation: A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment according toD4955 truth.
KJV Translation: A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smokingK4900flax shall he not quenchK4901: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CHURCH,ISAIAH,PRAYERLESSNESS,WORSHIP
Description: Isaiah 43:22
NET Translation: “But you did not call for me, O Jacob; you did not long for me, O Israel.
DARBY Translation: But thou hast not called upon meD4971, Jacob; for thou hast been weary of me, O Israel:
KJV Translation: But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.
Verse Intro: The Lord Rebukes Israel for their Sins
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CALAMUS,FAT,MONEY,SIN
Description: Isaiah 43:24
NET Translation: You did not buy me aromatic reeds; you did not present to me the fat of your sacrifices. Yet you burdened me with your sins; you made me weary with your evil deeds.
DARBY Translation: Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast made me to toil with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
KJV Translation: Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled meK4915with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,DIVORCE,JESUS THE CHRIST
Description: Isaiah 50:1
NET Translation: This is what the Lord says: “Where is your mother’s divorce certificate by which I divorced her? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold because of your sins; because of your rebellious acts I divorced your mother.
DARBY Translation: Thus saith Jehovah: Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, through your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
KJV Translation: Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
Verse Intro: Israel's Divorce a Result of Sin
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CUP,DRUNKENNESS
Description: Isaiah 51:17
NET Translation: Wake up! Wake up! Get up, O Jerusalem! You drank from the cup the Lord passed to you, which was full of his anger. You drained dry the goblet full of intoxicating wine.
DARBY Translation: Arouse thyself, arouse thyself, stand up, Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his fury. Thou hast drunk, hast drained out the goblet-cup of bewilderment:
KJV Translation: Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, [and] wrung [them] out.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,GOD,SALVATION
Description: Isaiah 57:18
NET Translation: I have seen their behavior, but I will heal them. I will lead them, and I will provide comfort to them and those who mourn with them.
DARBY Translation: I have seen his ways, and will heal him; and I will lead him, and will restore comforts unto him and to those of his that mourn.
KJV Translation: I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,BLESSING,GOD,PEACE,SALVATION
Description: Isaiah 57:19
NET Translation: I am the one who gives them reason to celebrate. Complete prosperity is available both to those who are far away and those who are nearby,” says the Lord, “and I will heal them.
DARBY Translation: I create the fruit of the lips: peace, peace to him [that is] afar off, and to him [that is] nigh, saith Jehovah; and I will heal him.
KJV Translation: I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to [him that is] far off, and to [him that is] near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,INTERCESSION,PRAYER
Description: Isaiah 63:17
NET Translation: Why, Lord, do you make us stray from your ways, and make our minds stubborn so that we do not obey you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance!
DARBY Translation: Why, O Jehovah, hast thou made us to err from thy ways, hast hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
KJV Translation: O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, [and] hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,GOD,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS
Description: Isaiah 65:2
NET Translation: I spread out my hands all day long to my rebellious people, who lived in a way that is morally unacceptable, and who did what they desired.
DARBY Translation: I have stretched out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, who walk in a way not good, after their own thoughts;
KJV Translation: I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way [that was] not good, after their own thoughts;
Keywords: ALTAR,BACKSLIDERS,BRICK,IDOLATRY,SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS
Description: Isaiah 65:3
NET Translation: These people continually and blatantly offend me as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards and burn incense on brick altars.
DARBY Translation: the people that provoke me to anger continually to my face, sacrificing in gardens and burning incense upon the bricks;
KJV Translation: A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CHURCH,GOD,VANITY
Description: Jeremiah 2:5
NET Translation: This is what the Lord says: “What fault could your ancestors have possibly found in me that they strayed so far from me? They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to me.
DARBY Translation: Thus saith Jehovah: What injustice have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and become vain?
KJV Translation: Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: Jeremiah 2:11
NET Translation: Has a nation ever changed its gods (even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!
DARBY Translation: Hath a nation changed [its] gods? and they are no gods; but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
KJV Translation: Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for [that which] doth not profit.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,INGRATITUDE,SIN
Description: Jeremiah 2:17
NET Translation: You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the Lord your God when he was leading you along the right path.
DARBY Translation: Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, at the time he was leading thee in the way?
KJV Translation: Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,SIN
Description: Jeremiah 2:19
NET Translation: Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment. Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful it was for you to reject me, the Lord your God, to show no respect for me,” says the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
DARBY Translation: Thine own wickedness chastiseth thee, and thy backslidings reprove thee: know then and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
KJV Translation: Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that [it is] an evil [thing] and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear [is] not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,GRAPE,VINE
Description: Jeremiah 2:21
NET Translation: I planted you in the land like a special vine of the very best stock. Why in the world have you turned into something like a wild vine that produces rotten, foul-smelling grapes?
DARBY Translation: And I, I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine unto me?
KJV Translation: Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,BACKSLIDERS
Description: Jeremiah 2:27
NET Translation: They say to a wooden idol, ‘You are my father.’ They say to a stone image, ‘You gave birth to me.’ Yes, they have turned away from me instead of turning to me. Yet when they are in trouble, they say, ‘Come and save us!’
DARBY Translation: saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth; for they have turned the back unto me, and not the face; and in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us!
KJV Translation: Saying to a stock, Thou [art] my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forthK5057: for they have turned [their] back unto me, and not [their] face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,INFIDELITY,INGRATITUDE
Description: Jeremiah 2:31
NET Translation: You people of this generation, listen to the Lord’s message: “Have I been like a wilderness to you, Israel? Have I been like a dark and dangerous land to you? Why then do you say, ‘We are free to wander. We will not come to you anymore?’
DARBY Translation: O generation, mark ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Wherefore say my people, We have dominion; we will come no more unto thee?
KJV Translation: O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,BRIDE,FORGETTING GOD,GODLESSNESS,MARRIAGE,WOMEN
Description: Jeremiah 2:32
NET Translation: Does a young woman forget to put on her jewels? Does a bride forget to put on her bridal attire? But my people have forgotten me for more days than can even be counted.
DARBY Translation: Doth a virgin forget her ornaments, a bride her attire? But my people have forgotten me days without number.
KJV Translation: Can a maid forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Keywords: ADULTERY,BACKSLIDERS,CHURCH,CONDESCENSION OF GOD,DIVORCE,IDOLATRY
Description: Jeremiah 3:1
NET Translation: “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man’s wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?” says the Lord.
DARBY Translation: They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many loversD5166; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.
KJV Translation: They sayK5062, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,GOD,REPENTANCE
Description: Jeremiah 3:4
NET Translation: Even now you say to me, ‘You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.
DARBY Translation: Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
KJV Translation: Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou [art] the guide of my youth?
Keywords: ANGER,BACKSLIDERS,GOD,REPENTANCE
Description: Jeremiah 3:12
NET Translation: “Go and shout this message to my people in the countries in the north. Tell them: ‘Come back to me, wayward Israel,’ says the Lord. ‘I will not continue to look on you with displeasure. For I am merciful,’ says the Lord. ‘I will not be angry with you forever.
DARBY Translation: Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah: I will not make my face darkD5170 upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah; I will not keep [anger] for ever.
KJV Translation: Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; [and] I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I [am] merciful, saith the LORD, [and] I will not keep [anger] for ever.
Verse Intro: The Lord Calls on Wayward Judah and Israel to Repent
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CONDESCENSION OF GOD,REPENTANCE
Description: Jeremiah 4:1
NET Translation: “If you, Israel, want to come back,” says the Lord, “if you want to come back to me, you must get those disgusting idols out of my sight and must no longer go astray.
DARBY Translation: If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith Jehovah, return unto me; and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not be a wanderer;
KJV Translation: If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CHURCH,GENTILES,GOD,JESUS THE CHRIST,OATH
Description: Jeremiah 4:2
NET Translation: You must be truthful, honest, and upright when you take an oath saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives!’ If you do, the nations will pray to be as blessed by him as you are and will make him the object of their boasting.”
DARBY Translation: and thou shalt in truth, in justice, and in righteousness swear, [As] Jehovah liveth! and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
KJV Translation: And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,HEART,JEREMIAH,REPENTANCE
Description: Jeremiah 4:14
NET Translation: O people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?
DARBY Translation: Wash thy heart, Jerusalem, from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
KJV Translation: O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Keywords: BIRDS,SIN,BACKSLIDERS,IDOLATRY,INTERCESSION
Description: Jeremiah 5:1
NET Translation: The Lord said, “Go up and down through the streets of Jerusalem. Look around and see for yourselves. Search through its public squares. See if any of you can find a single person who deals honestly and tries to be truthful. If you can, then I will not punish this city.
DARBY Translation: Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broadways thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be [any] that doeth justice, that seeketh fidelity; and I will pardon it.
KJV Translation: Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be [any] that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
Verse Intro: The Coming Judgment of Judah is Deserved
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,IMPENITENCE,REPENTANCE,WALKING,WAY
Description: Jeremiah 6:16
NET Translation: The Lord said to his people: “You are standing at the crossroads. So consider your path. Ask where the old, reliable paths are. Ask where the path is that leads to blessing and follow it. If you do, you will find rest for your souls.” But they said, “We will not follow it!”
DARBY Translation: Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the ancient paths, which is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein].
KJV Translation: Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein].
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,REPROBACY,SILVER,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Jeremiah 6:30
NET Translation: They are regarded as ‘rejected silver’ because the Lord rejects them.”
DARBY Translation: Reprobate silver shall they call them, for Jehovah hath rejected them.
KJV Translation: Reprobate silverK5090shall [men] call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,SHILOH,TABERNACLE
Description: Jeremiah 7:12
NET Translation: So, go to the place in Shiloh where I allowed myself to be worshiped in the early days. See what I did to it because of the wicked things my people Israel did.
DARBY Translation: For go now unto my place which was in ShilohD5219, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it, for the wickedness of my people Israel.
KJV Translation: But go ye now unto my place which [was] in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
Keywords: PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,BACKSLIDERS,BURIAL,IDOLATRY
Description: Jeremiah 8:1
NET Translation: The Lord says, “When that time comes, the bones of the kings of Judah and its leaders, the bones of the priests and prophets, and of all the other people who lived in Jerusalem will be dug up from their graves.
DARBY Translation: At that time, saith Jehovah, they shall bring forth the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;
KJV Translation: At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,ISRAEL,PROPHECIES CONCERNING
Description: Jeremiah 10:17
NET Translation: “Gather your belongings together and prepare to leave the land, you people of Jerusalem who are being besieged.
DARBY Translation: Gather up thy baggage out of the land, O inhabitress of the fortressD5245.
KJV Translation: Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitantK5126of the fortress.
Verse Intro: Jeremiah Asks for Help for the People
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CONSPIRACY,ISRAEL,PROPHECIES CONCERNING
Description: Jeremiah 11:9
NET Translation: The Lord said to me, “The people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem have plotted rebellion against me.
DARBY Translation: And Jehovah said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
KJV Translation: And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,GOD,JEREMIAH,WAR
Description: Jeremiah 12:7
NET Translation: “I will abandon my nation. I will forsake the people I call my own. I will turn my beloved people over to the power of their enemies.
DARBY Translation: I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage, I have given the beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
KJV Translation: I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly belovedK5143of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,STUBBLE
Description: Jeremiah 13:24
NET Translation: “The Lord says, ‘That is why I will scatter your people like chaff that is blown away by a desert wind.
DARBY Translation: And I will scatter them as stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
KJV Translation: Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: Jeremiah 13:25
NET Translation: This is your fate, the destiny to which I have appointed you, because you have forgotten me and have trusted in false gods.
DARBY Translation: This shall be thy lot, thy measured portion from me, saith Jehovah; because thou hast forgotten me, and confided in falsehood.
KJV Translation: This [is] thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,INTERCESSION,JEREMIAH,PRAYER,REPENTANCE,SIN
Description: Jeremiah 14:7
NET Translation: Then I said, “O Lord, intervene for the honor of your name even though our sins speak out against us. Indeed, we have turned away from you many times. We have sinned against you.
DARBY Translation: Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou act for thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many we have sinned against thee.
KJV Translation: O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou [it] for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
Verse Intro: Jeremiah Intercedes for the People
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,SIN,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Jeremiah 14:10
NET Translation: Then the Lord spoke about these people. “They truly love to go astray. They cannot keep from running away from me. So I am not pleased with them. I will now call to mind the wrongs they have done and punish them for their sins.”
DARBY Translation: Thus saith Jehovah toD5267 this people: Even so have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet; and Jehovah hath no delight in them: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
KJV Translation: Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
Verse Intro: Judgment to Come for Beliveing the Lies of the False Prophets
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,INTERCESSION,PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,PUNISHMENT,REPROBACY,SAMUEL,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Jeremiah 15:1
NET Translation: Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I would not feel pity for them! Get them away from me! Tell them to go away!
DARBY Translation: And Jehovah said unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, my soul [would] not [turn] toward this people. Send [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.
KJV Translation: Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this people: cast [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,REGENERATION
Description: Jeremiah 17:13
NET Translation: You are the one in whom Israel may find hope. All who leave you will suffer shame. Those who turn away from you will be consigned to the netherworld. For they have rejected you, the Lord, the fountain of life.
DARBY Translation: Thou hope of Israel, Jehovah! all that forsake thee shall be ashamed. They that depart from me shall be written in the earth; because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters.
KJV Translation: O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,IDOLATRY
Description: Jeremiah 18:13
NET Translation: Therefore, the Lord says, “Ask the people of other nations whether they have heard of anything like this. Israel should have been like a virgin, but she has done something utterly revolting!
DARBY Translation: Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ask ye now among the nations, Who hath heard such things? The virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
KJV Translation: Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,IDOLATRY,PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,JEREMIAH,SYMBOLS AND SIMILITUDES,BOTTLE,INSTRUCTION
Description: Jeremiah 19:1
NET Translation: The Lord told Jeremiah, “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take with you some of the leaders of the people and some of the leaders of the priests.
DARBY Translation: Thus saith Jehovah: Go and buy a potter's earthen flagon, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
KJV Translation: Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
Verse Intro: Object Lesson - the Broken Clay Jar
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CHILDREN
Description: Jeremiah 32:30
NET Translation: This will happen because the people of Israel and Judah have repeatedly done what displeases me from their earliest history until now and because they have repeatedly made me angry by the things they have done. I, the Lord, affirm it!
DARBY Translation: For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have been doing only evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith Jehovah.
KJV Translation: For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,JERUSALEM
Description: Jeremiah 32:31
NET Translation: This will happen because the people of this city have aroused my anger and my wrath since the time they built it until now. They have made me so angry that I am determined to remove it from my sight.
DARBY Translation: For this city hath been to me [a provocation] of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,
KJV Translation: For this city hath been to me [as] a provocationK5258of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CHURCH,REPENTANCE,SEEKERS,WEEPING
Description: Jeremiah 50:4
NET Translation: “When that time comes,” says the Lord, “the people of Israel and Judah will return to the land together. They will come back with tears of repentance as they seek the Lord their God.
DARBY Translation: In those days, and at that time, saith Jehovah, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping as they go, and shall seek Jehovah their God.
KJV Translation: In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,SHEEP
Description: Jeremiah 50:6
NET Translation: “My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have allowed them to go astray. They have wandered around in the mountains. They have roamed from one mountain and hill to another. They have forgotten their resting place.
DARBY Translation: My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they turned them away on the mountainsD5478: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their resting-place.
KJV Translation: My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away [on] the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CHURCH,NATION
Description: Ezekiel 2:3
NET Translation: He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the house of Israel, to rebellious nations who have rebelled against me; both they and their fathers have revolted against me to this very day.
DARBY Translation: And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me unto this very day;
KJV Translation: And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nationK5473that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, [even] unto this very day.
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,STUMBLING
Description: Ezekiel 3:20
NET Translation: “When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I set an obstacle before him, he will die. If you have not warned him, he will die for his sin. The righteous deeds he performed will not be considered, but I will hold you accountable for his death.
DARBY Translation: And when a righteous [man] doth turn from his righteousness, and do what is wrong, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die; because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous acts which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
KJV Translation: Again, When a righteous [man] doth turn from his righteousnessK5484, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Keywords: INSTRUCTION,PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,ART,BACKSLIDERS,BALANCES,BARBER,BEARD,EZEKIEL,HAIR,PROPHECY,RAZOR,SYMBOLS AND SIMILITUDES
Description: Ezekiel 5:1
NET Translation: “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.
DARBY Translation: And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knifeD5592; a barber's razor shalt thou take; and cause it to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard: and thou shalt take balances to weigh, and divide the [hair].
KJV Translation: And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause [it] to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the [hair].
Verse Intro: Object Lesson - Shaved Hair Divided Into Three - Death and Scattering
Keywords: AZUR,BACKSLIDERS,BENAIAH,HOLY SPIRIT,JAAZANIAH,PELATIAH,PROPHETS
Description: Ezekiel 11:1
NET Translation: A wind lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the Lord’s temple that faces the east. There, at the entrance of the gate, I noticed twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, officials of the people.
DARBY Translation: And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of Jehovah's house, which looketh eastward; and behold, at the door of the gate were five and twenty men; and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
KJV Translation: Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD'S house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
Verse Intro: Leaders Provide False Counsel and Sense of Security
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,EZEKIEL,GRAPE,PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,PARABLES,PROPHECY
Description: Ezekiel 15:1
NET Translation: The Lord’s message came to me:
DARBY Translation: And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
KJV Translation: And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Verse Intro: Jerusalem as a Useless Vine Is to be Burned
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: Ezekiel 16:43
NET Translation: “‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done, declares the Sovereign Lord. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?
DARBY Translation: Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast raged against me in all these [things], behold, therefore, I also will recompenseD5669 thy way upon [thy] head, saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou shalt not commit this lewdness besides all thine abominations.
KJV Translation: Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these [things]; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon [thine] head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,DEATH
Description: Ezekiel 18:24
NET Translation: “But if a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing according to all the abominable practices the wicked carry out, will he live? All his righteous acts will not be remembered; because of the unfaithful acts he has done and the sin he has committed, he will die.
DARBY Translation: And when the righteous turneth from his righteousness and practiseth what is wrong, [and] doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked doeth, shall he live? None of his righteous acts which he hath done shall be remembered: in his unfaithfulness which he hath wrought, and in his sin which he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
KJV Translation: But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, [and] doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked [man] doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS
Description: Ezekiel 18:26
NET Translation: When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.
DARBY Translation: When the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and practiseth what is wrong, and dieth for it; in his wrong that he hath done shall he die.
KJV Translation: When a righteous [man] turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,DROSS,LEAD,SILVER,TIN,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Ezekiel 22:18
NET Translation: “Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the worthless slag of silver.
DARBY Translation: Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: they are all copper, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver.
KJV Translation: Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become drossK5623: all they [are] brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are [even] the dross of silver.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,EZEKIEL,IDOLATRY,JERUSALEM,PARABLES,VISION,WHOREDOM,PROPHECY
Description: Ezekiel 23:1
NET Translation: The Lord’s message came to me:
DARBY Translation: And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
KJV Translation: The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
Verse Intro: The Two Sisters of Prostitution - Israel and Judah
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,FORGETTING GOD
Description: Ezekiel 23:35
NET Translation: “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you have forgotten me and completely disregarded me, you must bear now the punishment for your obscene conduct and prostitution.”
DARBY Translation: Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy fornications.
KJV Translation: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,SUPEREROGATION,WORKS
Description: Ezekiel 33:12
NET Translation: “And you, son of man, say to your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness if he sins.’
DARBY Translation: And thou, son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall therebyD5835 in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live therebyD5836 in the day that he sinneth.
KJV Translation: Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his [righteousness] in the day that he sinneth.
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,SUPEREROGATION
Description: Ezekiel 33:13
NET Translation: Suppose I tell the righteous that he will certainly live, but he becomes confident in his righteousness and commits iniquity. None of his righteous deeds will be remembered; because of the iniquity he has committed he will die.
DARBY Translation: When I say to the righteous that he shall certainD5837ly live, and he trusteth to his righteousness and doeth what is wrong, none of his righteous acts shall be remembered; but inD5838 his unrighteousness which he hath done, in it shall he die.
KJV Translation: When I shall say to the righteous, [that] he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,JUDGMENT
Description: Ezekiel 33:18
NET Translation: When a righteous man turns from his godliness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
DARBY Translation: When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and doeth what is wrong, then he shall die therein.
KJV Translation: When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
Keywords: ADULTERY,BAAL,HOSEA,AHAZ,BACKSLIDERS,BEERI,PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,PROPHETS
Description: Hosea 1:1
NET Translation: This is the Lord’s message that came to Hosea son of Beeri during the time of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the time of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel.
DARBY Translation: TheD6112 word of Jehovah that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
KJV Translation: The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
Verse Intro: The Lord's Message through Hosea
Keywords: BAAL,BACKSLIDERS,CHURCH,CONDESCENSION OF GOD,AMMI,PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,NAME,RUHAMAH
Description: Hosea 2:1
NET Translation: Then you will call your brother, “My People” (Ammi)! You will call your sister, “Pity” (Ruhamah)!
DARBY Translation: Say unto your brethren Ammi; and to your sisters, RuhamahD6119.
KJV Translation: Say ye unto your brethren, AmmiK6045; and to your sisters, RuhamahK6046.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,FLAGON,POLYGAMY,SYMBOLS AND SIMILITUDES,WOMEN
Description: Hosea 3:1
NET Translation: The Lord said to me, “Go, show love to your wife again, even though she loves another man and continually commits adultery. Likewise, the Lord loves the Israelites although they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols.”
DARBY Translation: And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a woman beloved of a friendD6134, and an adulteress, according to the love of Jehovah for the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love raisin-cakes.
KJV Translation: Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wineK6057.
Verse Intro: Object Lesson - Hosea Redeems His Wife
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,DAVID,GOD,JESUS THE CHRIST,REPENTANCE,SEEKERS
Description: Hosea 3:5
NET Translation: Afterward, the Israelites will turn and seek the Lord their God and their Davidic king. Then they will submit to the Lord in fear and receive his blessings in future days.
DARBY Translation: Afterwards shall the children of Israel return, and seek Jehovah their God, and David their king; and shall turn with fear toward Jehovah and toward his goodness, at the end of the days.
KJV Translation: Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,BLINDNESS,FORGETTING GOD,IGNORANCE,KNOWLEDGE,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN
Description: Hosea 4:6
NET Translation: You have destroyed my people by failing to acknowledge me! Because you refuse to acknowledge me, I will reject you as my priests. Because you reject the law of your God, I will reject your descendants.
DARBY Translation: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledgeD6138; for thou hast rejected knowledgeD6139, and I will reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
KJV Translation: My people are destroyedK6062for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: Hosea 4:10
NET Translation: They will eat, but not be satisfied; they will engage in prostitution, but not increase in numbers; because they have abandoned the Lord by pursuing other gods.
DARBY Translation: and they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: for they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.
KJV Translation: For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,HEIFER
Description: Hosea 4:16
NET Translation: Israel has rebelled like a stubborn heifer! Soon the Lord will put them out to pasture like a lamb in a broad field.
DARBY Translation: For Israel is refractory as an untractable heifer; now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide [pasture].
KJV Translation: For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,IDOLATRY,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,TABOR
Description: Hosea 5:1
NET Translation: Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen closely, O king! For judgment is about to overtake you. For you were like a trap to Mizpah, like a net spread out to catch Tabor.
DARBY Translation: Hear this, ye priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king: forD6146 this judgment is for you; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
KJV Translation: Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment [is] toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
Verse Intro: Announcement of Judgment Against Israel
Keywords: CHURCH,AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,BACKSLIDERS,REPENTANCE
Description: Hosea 6:1
NET Translation: Come on! Let’s return to the Lord. He himself has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us! He has injured us, but he will bandage our wounds!
DARBY Translation: Come and let us return unto Jehovah: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
KJV Translation: Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
Verse Intro: Fleeting Superficial Repentance Gives False Assurance
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CHARACTER,CLOUD,DEW,EPHRAIM,HYPOCRISY,INSTABILITY,LUKEWARMNESS,METEOROLOGY AND CELESTIAL PHENOMENA
Description: Hosea 6:4
NET Translation: What am I going to do with you, O Ephraim? What am I going to do with you, O Judah? For your faithfulness is as fleeting as the morning mist; it disappears as quickly as dawn’s dew.
DARBY Translation: What shall I do unto thee, Ephraim? What shall I do unto thee, Judah? For your goodnessD6157 is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away.
KJV Translation: O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodnessK6077[is] as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
Verse Intro: Transitory Faithfulness Still Leads to Judgment
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,FORGETTING GOD
Description: Hosea 8:14
NET Translation: Israel has forgotten his Maker and built royal palaces, and Judah has built many fortified cities. But I will send fire on their cities; it will consume their royal citadels.
DARBY Translation: For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth templesD6169; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
KJV Translation: For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
Keywords: PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,BACKSLIDERS,WORLDLINESS
Description: Hosea 9:1
NET Translation: O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly like the nations, for you are unfaithful to your God. You love to receive a prostitute’s wages on all the floors where you thresh your grain.
DARBY Translation: Rejoice not, Israel, exultingly, as the peoples; for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved harlot's hire upon every corn-floor.
KJV Translation: Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as [other] people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward uponK6098every cornfloor.
Verse Intro: Their Misplaced Confidence in Assyria will Result in Return to Egypt
Keywords: BAALIM,BACKSLIDERS,IDOLATRY,IMPENITENCE
Description: Hosea 11:2
NET Translation: But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.
DARBY Translation: As they calledD6191 them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baals, and burned incense to graven images.
KJV Translation: [As] they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,IMPENITENCE
Description: Hosea 11:7
NET Translation: My people are obsessed with turning away from me; they call to Baal, but he will never exalt them!
DARBY Translation: Yea, my people are bent upon backsliding from me: though they call them to the Most High, none at all exalteth [him].
KJV Translation: And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt [him].
Keywords: ADMAH,BACKSLIDERS,GOD,ZEBOIM
Description: Hosea 11:8
NET Translation: “How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboyim? I have had a change of heart. All my tender compassions are aroused.
DARBY Translation: How shall I give thee overD6193, Ephraim? [how] shall I deliver thee up, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? [how] shall I set thee as Zeboim? My heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
KJV Translation: How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? [how] shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? [how] shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
Verse Intro: The Challenge of Weighing Judgment and Mercy - God will Restore Israel
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,PERSIA,PRISONERS,WAR
Description: Hosea 13:16
NET Translation: (14:1) Samaria will be held guilty, because she rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their infants will be dashed to the ground—their pregnant women will be ripped open.
DARBY Translation: SamariaD6213 shall bear her guiltD6214; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
KJV Translation: Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,GOD,REPENTANCE
Description: Hosea 14:1
NET Translation: Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for your sin has been your downfall!
DARBY Translation: O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
KJV Translation: O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
Verse Intro: A Call to Israel for Genuine Repentance and Return to the Lord
Keywords: ANGER,BACKSLIDERS,GOD
Description: Hosea 14:4
NET Translation: “I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger will turn away from them.
DARBY Translation: I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him.
KJV Translation: I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
Verse Intro: God Promises Healing if they Genuinely Return
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,ISRAEL,PROPHECIES CONCERNING
Description: Amos 2:4
NET Translation: This is what the Lord says: “Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions—make that four—I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They rejected the Lord’s law; they did not obey his commands. Their false gods, to which their fathers were loyal, led them astray.
DARBY Translation: Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have despised the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes; and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers walked.
KJV Translation: Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
Verse Intro: The Sins of Judah and Israel will be Judged
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,COMMERCE,CONFIDENCE,GOD,JONAH,JOPPA,SHIP,TARSHISH
Description: Jonah 1:3
NET Translation: Instead, Jonah immediately headed off to Tarshish to escape from the commission of the Lord. He traveled to Joppa and found a merchant ship heading to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard it to go with them to Tarshish, far away from the Lord.
DARBY Translation: But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish, from the presence of Jehovah.
KJV Translation: But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
Keywords: AMITTAI,BACKSLIDERS,CONVICTION,FISH,JONAH,AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,PRAYER
Description: Jonah 2:1
NET Translation: Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the stomach of the fish
DARBY Translation: And Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish's belly;
KJV Translation: Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,
Verse Intro: Jonah Prays to the Lord
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CHURCH,TEMPLE
Description: Jonah 2:4
NET Translation: I thought I had been banished from your sight and that I would never again see your holy temple.
DARBY Translation: And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes, Yet will I look again toward thy holy temple.
KJV Translation: Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CONVERTS,CONVICTION,JONAH,NINEVEH,PREACHING,ASSYRIA,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,MISSIONS,PROPHECY,PROPHETS
Description: Jonah 3:1
NET Translation: The Lord’s message came to Jonah a second time
DARBY Translation: And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
KJV Translation: And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
Verse Intro: Jonah Called to Go to Nineveh a Second Time
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,PRAYERLESSNESS
Description: Zephaniah 1:6
NET Translation: and those who turn their backs on the Lord and do not want the Lord’s help or guidance.”
DARBY Translation: and them that turn back from after Jehovah, and that do not seek Jehovah, nor inquire for him.
KJV Translation: And them that are turned back from the LORD; and [those] that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,GOD,PRAYER
Description: Zechariah 10:6
NET Translation: “I (says the Lord) will strengthen the kingdom of Judah and deliver the people of Joseph and will bring them back because of my compassion for them. They will be as though I had never rejected them, for I am the Lord their God, and therefore I will hear them.
DARBY Translation: And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back againD6553; for I will have mercy upon them; and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Jehovah their God, and I will answer them.
KJV Translation: And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I [am] the LORD their God, and will hear them.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CHILDREN,FORMALISM,HYPOCRISY,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PRESUMPTION,REVERENCE,SERVANT
Description: Malachi 1:6
NET Translation: “A son naturally honors his father and a slave respects his master. If I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? The Lord of Heaven’s Armies asks you this, you priests who make light of my name! But you reply, ‘How have we made light of your name?’
DARBY Translation: A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, priests, that despise my name. But ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
KJV Translation: A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I [be] a father, where [is] mine honour? and if I [be] a master, where [is] my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
Verse Intro: The Priests have Corrupted the Offerings
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CONDESCENSION OF GOD,MALACHI,PRESUMPTION,REPENTANCE
Description: Malachi 3:7
NET Translation: From the days of your ancestors you have ignored my commandments and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “But you say, ‘How should we return?’
DARBY Translation: Since the days of your fathers have ye departed from my statutes, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return?
KJV Translation: Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept [them]. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
Keywords: AGENCY,BACKSLIDERS,CHURCH,INFLUENCE,RIGHTEOUS,SALT,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: Matthew 5:13
NET Translation: “You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people!
DARBY Translation: *Ye* are the salt of the earthD6668; but if the salt have become insipid, wherewith shall it be salted? It is no longer fit for anything but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot by men.
KJV Translation: “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”
Verse Intro: Disciples as Salt and Light
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,DEMONS,TEMPTATION
Description: Matthew 12:45
NET Translation: Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well!”
DARBY Translation: Then he goes and takes with himself seven other spirits worse than himself, and entering in, they dwell there; and the last condition of that man becomes worse than the first. Thus shall it be to this wicked generation also.
KJV Translation: “Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last” [state] “of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.”
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CHICKENS,CONTINGENCIES,GOD,HEN,IMPENITENCE,JERUSALEM,JESUS THE CHRIST,PROPHETS,SALVATION,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: Matthew 23:37
NET Translation: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!
DARBY Translation: Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [the city] that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would ID6902 have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
KJV Translation: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,” [thou] “that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under” [her] “wings, and ye would not!”
Verse Intro: Lament Over and Judgment of Israel
Keywords: AFFECTIONS,APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,COMPANY
Description: Matthew 24:12
NET Translation: and because lawlessness will increase so much, the love of many will grow cold.
DARBY Translation: and because lawlessness shall prevailD6909, the love of the mostD6910 shall grow cold;
KJV Translation: “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,JESUS THE CHRIST,PROPHECY,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS,SHEEP,SHEPHERD,TEMPTATION
Description: Matthew 26:31
NET Translation: Then Jesus said to them, “This night you will all fall away because of me, for it is written: ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
DARBY Translation: Then saith Jesus to them, All *ye* shall be offendedD6935 in me during this night. For it is writtenD6936, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
KJV Translation: Then saith Jesus unto them, “All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.”
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,BACKSLIDERS,COWARDICE,FRIENDS,PROPHECY
Description: Matthew 26:56
NET Translation: But this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.
DARBY Translation: But all this is comeD6940 to pass that the scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him and fled.
KJV Translation: “But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,COWARDICE,FALSEHOOD,JESUS THE CHRIST,PUBLIC OPINION,PETER,TEMPTATION,WOMEN
Description: Matthew 26:69
NET Translation: Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A slave girl came to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”
DARBY Translation: But Peter sat without in the palace-courtD6945; and a maid came to him, saying, And *thou* wast with Jesus the Galilaean.
KJV Translation: Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.
Verse Intro: Peter Denies Knowing Jesus Three Times
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,COCK CROWING,CONSCIENCE,REMORSE,REPENTANCE,WEEPING
Description: Matthew 26:75
NET Translation: Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.
DARBY Translation: And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, who had said [to him], Before [the] cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went forth without, and wept bitterly.
KJV Translation: And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: Mark 4:7
NET Translation: Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.
DARBY Translation: And another fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
KJV Translation: “And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.”
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,BLINDNESS,CHARACTER,SATAN,TEMPTATION
Description: Mark 4:15
NET Translation: These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: Whenever they hear, immediately Satan comes and snatches the word that was sown in them.
DARBY Translation: and these are they by the wayside where the word is sown, and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.
KJV Translation: “And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.”
Keywords: ANGEL (a spirit),BACKSLIDERS,GOD,JESUS THE CHRIST,JUDGMENT,SHAME,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Mark 8:38
NET Translation: For if anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
DARBY Translation: For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him shall the Son of man also be ashamed when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
KJV Translation: “Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,ECCLESIASTICISM,HOLINESS,HYPOCRISY,MEEKNESS,PEACE,SALT
Description: Mark 9:50
NET Translation: Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other.”
DARBY Translation: Salt [is] good, but if the salt is become saltless, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.
KJV Translation: “Salt” [is] “good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.”
Verse Intro: Dssciples as Salt
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,COCK CROWING,CONSCIENCE,REPENTANCE,WEEPING
Description: Mark 14:72
NET Translation: Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him: “Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept.
DARBY Translation: And the second time a cock crew. And Peter remembered the word that Jesus said to him, Before [the] cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice; and when he thought thereon he weptD7140.
KJV Translation: And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he weptK6637.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: Luke 9:62
NET Translation: Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
DARBY Translation: But Jesus said to him, No one having laid his hand on [the] plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.
KJV Translation: And Jesus said unto him, “No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,SATAN
Description: Luke 11:21
NET Translation: When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions are safe.
DARBY Translation: When the strong [man] armedD7317 keeps his own houseD7318, his goods are in peace;
KJV Translation: “When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:”
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,DECISION,INSTABILITY,LOT,PILLAR,WOMEN
Description: Luke 17:32
NET Translation: Remember Lot’s wife!
DARBY Translation: Remember the wife of Lot.
KJV Translation: “Remember Lot's wife.”
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CONSCIENCE,REPENTANCE,WEEPING
Description: Luke 22:62
NET Translation: And he went outside and wept bitterly.
DARBY Translation: And Peter, going forth without, wept bitterly.
KJV Translation: And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,INSTABILITY,JESUS THE CHRIST,UNBELIEF
Description: John 6:66
NET Translation: After this many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer.
DARBY Translation: From that [time] many of his disciples went away back and walked no more with him.
KJV Translation: From that [time] many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS
Description: John 6:67
NET Translation: So Jesus said to the twelve, “You don’t want to go away too, do you?”
DARBY Translation: Jesus therefore said to the twelve, WillD7531 ye also go away?
KJV Translation: Then said Jesus unto the twelve, “Will ye also go away?”
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,BRANCH,CHURCH,CONTINGENCIES,HYPOCRISY,UNFRUITFULNESS
Description: John 15:6
NET Translation: If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.
DARBY Translation: Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
KJV Translation: “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast” [them] “into the fire, and they are burned.”
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,FAITH,JESUS THE CHRIST,SPEAR,UNBELIEF
Description: John 20:27
NET Translation: Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and examine my hands. Extend your hand and put it into my side. Do not continue in your unbelief, but believe.”
DARBY Translation: Then he says to Thomas, Bring thy finger here and see my hands; and bring thy hand and put it into my side; and be not unbelieving, but believing.
KJV Translation: Then saith he to Thomas, “Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust” [it] “into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.”
Keywords: CORINTH,ADULTERY,BACKSLIDERS,CHURCH
Description: 1 Corinthians 5:1
NET Translation: It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father’s wife.
DARBY Translation: It is universally reportedD8254 [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as [is] not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.
KJV Translation: It is reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
Verse Intro: Dealing with Sins in the Chruch - Church Discipline
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,BAPTISM,RED SEA
Description: 1 Corinthians 10:1
NET Translation: For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,
DARBY Translation: For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
KJV Translation: Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
Verse Intro: Learning Through the Example of Israel's Unbelief and Failure
Keywords: ANGER,BACKBITING,BACKSLIDERS,CHURCH,ENVY,SLANDER,STRIFE,WHISPERER,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: 2 Corinthians 12:20
NET Translation: For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me not what you wish. I am afraid that somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
DARBY Translation: For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that *I* be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest [there might be] strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;
KJV Translation: For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
Keywords: ADULTERY,BACKSLIDERS,CHURCH,IMPENITENCE,LASCIVIOUSNESS,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: 2 Corinthians 12:21
NET Translation: I am afraid that when I come again, my God may humiliate me before you, and I will grieve for many of those who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and licentiousness that they have practiced.
DARBY Translation: lest my God should humble me as toD8510 you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised.
KJV Translation: [And] lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and [that] I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,DOCTRINES,INSTABILITY,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN
Description: Galatians 1:6
NET Translation: I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel—
DARBY Translation: I wonder that ye thus quickly changeD8522, from him that called you in Christ's grace, to a different gospelD8523,
KJV Translation: I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Verse Intro: Paul's Reason for Writing - Another Gospel
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,GOSPEL,HERESY
Description: Galatians 1:7
NET Translation: not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.
DARBY Translation: which is not another [one]; butD8524 there are some that trouble you, and desire to pervert the glad tidings of the Christ.
KJV Translation: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Keywords: COVENANT,JUDAISM,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,BACKSLIDERS,FAITH,INFLUENCE,SALVATION,TRUTH,WORKS,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: Galatians 3:1
NET Translation: You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!
DARBY Translation: O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you; to whom, as before your very eyes, Jesus Christ has been portrayed, crucified [among you]?
KJV Translation: O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Verse Intro: Justification is by by Law or Faith? - The Example of Abraham
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,GOD,INSTABILITY,WISDOM,WORKS
Description: Galatians 4:9
NET Translation: But now that you have come to know God (or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?
DARBY Translation: but now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye desire to be again anew in bondage?
KJV Translation: But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye againK6998to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,LOVE,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: Galatians 4:11
NET Translation: I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.
DARBY Translation: I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.
KJV Translation: I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,FAITH,LOVE,ORDINANCE,WORKS
Description: Galatians 5:6
NET Translation: For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight—the only thing that matters is faith working through love.
DARBY Translation: For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.
KJV Translation: For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,GAMES,INFLUENCE,RACE
Description: Galatians 5:7
NET Translation: You were running well; who prevented you from obeying the truth?
DARBY Translation: Ye ran well; who has stoppedD8576 you that ye should not obey the truth?
KJV Translation: Ye did run well; who did hinder youK7005that ye should not obey the truth?
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,CHURCH,CONSCIENCE,DOCTRINES,FAITH,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,WAR
Description: 1 Timothy 1:19
NET Translation: To do this you must hold firmly to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck in regard to the faith.
DARBY Translation: maintainingD8845 faithD8846 and a good conscience; which [last] some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith;
KJV Translation: Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
Keywords: ALEXANDER,APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,BLASPHEMY,CHURCH,HYMENAEUS,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,SATAN,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: 1 Timothy 1:20
NET Translation: Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.
DARBY Translation: of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may be taught by discipline not to blaspheme.
KJV Translation: Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,SATAN,TEMPTATION
Description: 1 Timothy 5:15
NET Translation: For some have already wandered away to follow Satan.
DARBY Translation: For already some have turned aside after Satan.
KJV Translation: For some are already turned aside after Satan.
Keywords: AVARICE,BACKSLIDERS,LOVE,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,MONEY,TEMPTATION
Description: 1 Timothy 6:10
NET Translation: For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.
DARBY Translation: For the love of money is [the]D8889 root of every evil; which some having aspired after, have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
KJV Translation: For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erredK7127from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Keywords: AGENCY,BACKSLIDERS,DOCTRINES,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PHILOSOPHY,PREACHING,RESPONSIBILITY,SCIENCE,STRIFE,VANITY,WISDOM
Description: 1 Timothy 6:20
NET Translation: O Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane chatter and absurdities of so-called “knowledge.”
DARBY Translation: O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge,
KJV Translation: O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane [and] vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,BENEDICTIONS,DOCTRINES,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PREACHING,STRIFE,WISDOM
Description: 1 Timothy 6:21
NET Translation: By professing it, some have strayed from the faith. Grace be with you all.
DARBY Translation: of which some having made profession, have missedD8893 the faith. Grace [be] with thee.
KJV Translation: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace [be] with thee. Amen.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,LOVE,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PERSECUTION,POWER,TESTIMONY
Description: 2 Timothy 1:8
NET Translation: So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me, a prisoner for his sake, but by God’s power accept your share of suffering for the gospel.
DARBY Translation: Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but suffer evil along with the glad tidingsD8900, according to the power of God;
KJV Translation: Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,HERMOGENES,PHYGELLUS
Description: 2 Timothy 1:15
NET Translation: You know that everyone in the province of Asia deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
DARBY Translation: Thou knowest this, that all who [are] in Asia, of whom is Phygellus and Hermogenes, have turned away from me.
KJV Translation: This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,BACKSLIDERS,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSEVERANCE,SUFFERING,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: 2 Timothy 2:12
NET Translation: If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us.
DARBY Translation: if we endureD8911, we shall also reign together; if we deny, *he* also will deny us;
KJV Translation: If we suffer, we shall also reign with [him]: if we deny [him], he also will deny us:
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,COVETOUSNESS,CRESCENS,DALMATIA,DEMAS,THESSALONICA,TITUS
Description: 2 Timothy 4:10
NET Translation: For Demas deserted me, since he loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia.
DARBY Translation: for Demas has forsaken me, having loved the present age, and is gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
KJV Translation: For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,SYMBOLS AND SIMILITUDES,UNBELIEF,WATCHFULNESS
Description: Hebrews 3:12
NET Translation: See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.
DARBY Translation: See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in turning away from [the] living God.
KJV Translation: Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,COMMUNION,FELLOWSHIP,REPROOF,SIN
Description: Hebrews 3:13
NET Translation: But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.
DARBY Translation: But encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called To-day, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
KJV Translation: But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,UNBELIEF
Description: Hebrews 3:16
NET Translation: For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership?
DARBY Translation: (for who was it, who, having heard, provoked? but [was it] notD9015 all who came out of Egypt by Moses?
KJV Translation: For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,FAITH,PROCRASTINATION,REGENERATION,REST,SALVATION,UNBELIEF
Description: Hebrews 4:1
NET Translation: Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.
DARBY Translation: Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you might seem to have failed [of it].
KJV Translation: Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left [us] of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Verse Intro: Enter God's Promised Rest by Faith
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,UNBELIEF
Description: Hebrews 4:11
NET Translation: Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
DARBY Translation: Let us therefore use diligenceD9021 to enterD9022 into that rest, that no one may fall after the same example of not hearkening to the wordD9023.
KJV Translation: Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbeliefK7172.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,BLINDNESS,MYSTERIES,PRIEST
Description: Hebrews 5:11
NET Translation: On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.
DARBY Translation: Concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to be interpreted in speaking [of it], since ye are become dull in hearing.
KJV Translation: Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
Verse Intro: Need to Move on to Maturity
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,BLINDNESS,MILK,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,ORACLE,WORD OF GOD
Description: Hebrews 5:12
NET Translation: For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.
DARBY Translation: For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that [one] should teach you what [are] the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, [and] not of solid food.
KJV Translation: For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which [be] the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,HOLY SPIRIT,REPROBACY,UNPARDONABLE SIN
Description: Hebrews 6:4
NET Translation: For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit,
DARBY Translation: For it is impossible to renewD9038 again to repentance those once enlightened, and who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakersD9039 of [the] Holy Spirit,
KJV Translation: For [it is] impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,CONSCIENCE,GODLESSNESS,JUDGMENT,REPROBACY,SIN
Description: Hebrews 10:26
NET Translation: For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,
DARBY Translation: For where we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledgeD9111 of the truth, there no longer remains any sacrifice for sins,
KJV Translation: For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,FAITH,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS
Description: Hebrews 10:38
NET Translation: But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him.
DARBY Translation: But the justD9114 shall live by faith; and, if heD9115 draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him.
KJV Translation: Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,FAITH
Description: Hebrews 10:39
NET Translation: But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.
DARBY Translation: But *we* are not drawers back to perdition, but of faith to saving [the] soul.
KJV Translation: But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,FAITH
Description: Hebrews 11:14
NET Translation: For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.
DARBY Translation: For they who say such things shew clearly that they seek [their] country.
KJV Translation: For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: Hebrews 11:15
NET Translation: In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.
DARBY Translation: And if they had called to mind that from whence they went out, they had had opportunity to have returned;
KJV Translation: And truly, if they had been mindful of that [country] from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,DILIGENCE,HOLINESS,INFLUENCE,REPROBACY,SIN,WATCHFULNESS
Description: Hebrews 12:15
NET Translation: See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through it many become defiled.
DARBY Translation: watching lest [there be] any one who lacks the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and many be defiled by it;
KJV Translation: Looking diligently lest any man failK7214of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled;
Keywords: ABLUTION,BACKSLIDERS,BLINDNESS,UNFAITHFULNESS
Description: 2 Peter 1:9
NET Translation: But concerning the one who lacks such things—he is blind. That is to say, he is nearsighted, since he has forgotten about the cleansing of his past sins.
DARBY Translation: for he with whom these things are not present is blind, short-sighted, and has forgotten the purging of his former sins.
KJV Translation: But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
Keywords: APOSTASY,BACKSLIDERS,JESUS THE CHRIST,JUDGMENT
Description: 2 Peter 2:20
NET Translation: For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.
DARBY Translation: For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through [the] knowledgeD9330 of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first.
KJV Translation: For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,GOSPEL,JUDGMENT,SIN
Description: 2 Peter 2:21
NET Translation: For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.
DARBY Translation: For it were better for them not to have knownD9331 the way of righteousness, than having knownD9332 [it] to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
KJV Translation: For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known [it], to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Keywords: ANTICHRIST,BACKSLIDERS,BENEDICTIONS,CHURCH,COMMANDMENTS,COMPANY,COMPLICITY,DECEIT,DECISION,DOCTRINES,ELDER,FELLOWSHIP,GOD,HERESY,HOLINESS,INK,JESUS THE CHRIST,JOHN,LOVE,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,OBEDIENCE,PAPER,PARTICEPS CRIMINIS,RIGHTEOUS,RIGHTEOUSNESS,SALUTATIONS,TRUTH,WATCHFULNESS
Description: 2 John 1:1
NET Translation: From the elder, to an elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth (and not I alone, but also all those who know the truth),
DARBY Translation: The elder to [the] elect lady and her children, whom *I* love inD9410 truth, and not *I* only but also all who have known the truth,
KJV Translation: The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
Verse Intro: Warning Against False Teachers Trying to Deceive
Keywords: AFFECTIONS,BACKSLIDERS,INSTABILITY,LOVE,LUKEWARMNESS
Description: Revelation 2:4
NET Translation: But I have this against you: You have departed from your first love!
DARBY Translation: but I have against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.
KJV Translation: “Nevertheless I have” [somewhat] “against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.”
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CANDLESTICK,IMPENITENCE,REPENTANCE
Description: Revelation 2:5
NET Translation: Therefore, remember from what high state you have fallen and repent! Do the deeds you did at the first; if not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place—that is, if you do not repent.
DARBY Translation: Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works: but if not, I am coming to thee, and I will remove thy lamp out of its place, except thou shalt repent.
KJV Translation: “Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.”
Keywords: AFFECTIONS,BACKSLIDERS,BALAAM,IDOLATRY,LUKEWARMNESS,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,STUMBLING
Description: Revelation 2:14
NET Translation: But I have a few things against you: You have some people there who follow the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.
DARBY Translation: But I have a few things against thee: that thou hast there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a snare before the sons of Israel, to eat [of] idol sacrifices and commit fornication.
KJV Translation: “But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.”
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,BALAAM,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,NICOLAITANES,SIN
Description: Revelation 2:15
NET Translation: In the same way, there are also some among you who follow the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
DARBY Translation: So thou also hast those who hold the doctrine of Nicolaitanes in like manner.
KJV Translation: “So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.”
Keywords: ADULTERY,AFFECTIONS,BACKSLIDERS,IDOLATRY,JEZEBEL,LUKEWARMNESS,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PROPHETESSES
Description: Revelation 2:20
NET Translation: But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and by her teaching deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
DARBY Translation: But I have against thee that thou permittest the womanD9463 Jezebel, she who calls herself prophetess, and she teaches and leads astray my servantsD9464 to commit fornication and eat of idol sacrifices.
KJV Translation: “Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.”
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,BACKSLIDERS,GOD,IMPENITENCE
Description: Revelation 2:21
NET Translation: I have given her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.
DARBY Translation: And I gave her time that she should repent, and she will not repent of her fornication.
KJV Translation: “And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.”
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,BACKSLIDERS,INSTABILITY,LUKEWARMNESS,REPENTANCE,TEMPTATION,WATCHFULNESS
Description: Revelation 3:2
NET Translation: Wake up then, and strengthen what remains that was about to die, because I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God.
DARBY Translation: BeD9468 watchful, and strengthen the things that remain, which areD9469 about to die, for I have not found thy works complete before my God.
KJV Translation: “Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.”
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,CONTINGENCIES,IMPENITENCE,REPENTANCE,TEMPTATION,THEFT AND THIEVES,WATCHFULNESS,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Revelation 3:3
NET Translation: Therefore, remember what you received and heard, and obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come against you.
DARBY Translation: Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and keep [it] and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come [upon thee] as a thief, and thou shalt not knowD9470 at what hour I shall come upon thee.
KJV Translation: “Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.”
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,DECISION,DOOR
Description: Revelation 3:8
NET Translation: ‘I know your deeds. (Look! I have put in front of you an open door that no one can shut.) I know that you have little strength, but you have obeyed my word and have not denied my name.
DARBY Translation: I know thy works: behold, I have setD9472 before thee an opened door, which no one can shut, because thou hast a little power, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
KJV Translation: “I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.”
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,INSTABILITY,LUKEWARMNESS
Description: Revelation 3:15
NET Translation: ‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot!
DARBY Translation: I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot; I would thou wert cold or hot.
KJV Translation: “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.”
Keywords: ADULTERY,BACKSLIDERS,BRIMSTONE,CHARACTER,DEATH,FALSEHOOD,FIRE,HELL,HOMICIDE,IDOLATRY,LAKE,LIARS,PERSEVERANCE,UNBELIEF,WHOREMONGER,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Revelation 21:8
NET Translation: But as for the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.”
DARBY Translation: But to the fearful and unbelieving, [and sinners], and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part [is] in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
KJV Translation: “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”