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2 Peter 2:20 (NIV)
If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.
2 Peter 2:21 (NIV)
It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.
2 Peter 2:22 (NIV)
Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.”
James 5:19 (NIV)
My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back,
James 5:20 (NIV)
remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
Hebrews 2:1 (NIV)
We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
Proverbs 14:14 (NIV)
The faithless will be fully repaid for their ways, and the good rewarded for theirs.
Jeremiah 3:22 (NIV)
“Return, faithless people; I will cure you of backsliding.” “Yes, we will come to you, for you are the Lord our God.
Jeremiah 2:19 (NIV)
Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the Lord your God and have no awe of me,” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
Ezekiel 37:23 (NIV)
They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
Jeremiah 3:11 (NIV)
The Lord said to me, “Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah.
Jeremiah 8:5 (NIV)
Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
Jeremiah 31:22 (NIV)
How long will you wander, unfaithful Daughter Israel? The Lord will create a new thing on earth— the woman will return to the man.”
Jeremiah 49:4 (NIV)
Why do you boast of your valleys, boast of your valleys so fruitful? Unfaithful Daughter Ammon, you trust in your riches and say, ‘Who will attack me?’
Jeremiah 3:14 (NIV)
“Return, faithless people,” declares the Lord , “for I am your husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.
Hosea 11:7 (NIV)
My people are determined to turn from me. Even though they call me God Most High, I will by no means exalt them.
Jeremiah 3:6 (NIV)
During the reign of King Josiah, the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there.
Jeremiah 3:8 (NIV)
I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery.
Jeremiah 3:12 (NIV)
Go, proclaim this message toward the north: “ ‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord , ‘I will frown on you no longer, for I am faithful,’ declares the Lord , ‘I will not be angry forever.
Isaiah 57:17 (NIV)
I was enraged by their sinful greed; I punished them, and hid my face in anger, yet they kept on in their willful ways.
Hosea 14:4 (NIV)
“I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them.
Proverbs 1:32 (NIV)
For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;
Jeremiah 3:23 (NIV)
Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills and mountains is a deception; surely in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
Jeremiah 3:13 (NIV)
Only acknowledge your guilt— you have rebelled against the Lord your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me,’ ” declares the Lord .
Jeremiah 3:7 (NIV)
I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.