Perpetual Backsliding

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

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

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.

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

• Alms
• Covenant
• Herbs

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, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?

• Self-will

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.