Proverbs 24:16
For a just man falls seven times, and rises up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
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Hosea 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.
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On Sin in Believers
... These continually feel an heart bent to backsliding; a natural tendency to evil;
a proneness to depart from God, and cleave to the things of earth. ...
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The Scripture Way of Salvation
... It is a conviction of our proneness to evil, of an heart bent to backsliding, of
the still continuing tendency of the flesh to lust against the spirit. ...
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Our Compassionate High Priest
... ourselves, of our natural weakness, of our evil tendencies, of our proneness in
this ... Many are out of the way because of their backsliding after grace has come ...
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The Repentance of Believers
... believers at Corinth, "Ye are carnal;") an heart bent to backsliding, still ever ...
pride, self-will, love of the world, anger, and general proneness to depart ...
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Self-Humbling and Self-Searching
... While there is sin, or a proneness to any kind of sin, lurking in us, the ... Here is
a soul seeking Christ; here is another backsliding; here is a brother falling ...
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Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ;
The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3. <. ...
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Christian Behavior
... Seeing corruption is not yet out of our natures, there is a proneness in us to build
[even] upon the right foundation, wood, hay, and stubble, instead of gold ...
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Paul's Departure and Crown;
... this world daily, and provoked him also daily to wind up the spirit of his mind;
transforming himself by the power of the Word, from that proneness that was in ...
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners Or, a Brief Relation of ...
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. <. ...
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners:
The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3. <. ...
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