Primary Verses:

1. Ex. 32:8-10

   • "They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.  And YHVH said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:  Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation."

2. Deut. 5:32

   • "Ye shall observe to do therefore as YHVH your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left."

Supporting Verses:

3. Deut. 11:26-28

   • "Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;  A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of YHVH your God, which I command you this day:  And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of YHVH your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known."

4. Joshua 23:6

   • "Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;"

5. 1 Sam. 15:11

   • "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 YHVH all night."

6. Neh. 9:26-29

   • "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.  Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.  But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;  And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear."

7. Psalms 85:8

   • "I will hear what God YHVH will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly."

8. Prov. 14:14

   • "The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself."

9. Jer. 8:5

   • "Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return."

10. Jer. 14:7

    • "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."

11. Hos. 4:16

    • "For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now YHVH will feed them as a lamb in a large place."

12. Hos. 11:7

    • "And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him."

13. Luke 9:62

    • "And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."

14. 2 Pet. 2:21

    • "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."