A. Cooling off & losing "first love" for Jesus:

REV 2:4. Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

REV 2:5. 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.

REV 3:15. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

REV 3:16. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

B. Being filled with own ways & desires:

PRO 14:14. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

EZE 14:3. Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?

EZE 14:5. That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

EZE 14:7. For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:

EZE 14:8. And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

1TIM 6:9. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

C. Losing the Heavenly vision in favour of temporary gain:

PRO 29:18. Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

MAL 3:14. Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?

LUK 15:12. And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

LUK 15:13. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

HEB 12:16. Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

HEB 12:17. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

2PE 1:9. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

D. Quitting when the going gets tough:

MAT 13:20. But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;

MAT 13:21. Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

JOH 10:12. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.

JOH 10:13. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

E. Desiring worldly pleasures & riches:

HEB 11:14. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

HEB 11:15. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

GEN 19:26. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

NUM 11:5. We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:

NUM 11:6. But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

EXO 16:3. And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

PSA 73:2. But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

PSA 73:3. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

MAT 13:22. He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

2TI 4:10. For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

1JO 2:15. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1JO 2:16. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

1JO 2:17. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

REV 3:17. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

1COR 10:5. But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

1COR 10:6. Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

F. Not grounded in or obeying the Word:

LUK 8:13. They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

MAT 7:26. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

MAT 7:27. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

1TIM 1:19. Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:

2TI 4:3. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

2TI 4:4. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

G. Having a doubting questioning unbelieving attitude:

ROM 11:20. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

COL 2:8. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

HEB 3:12. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

H. Refusing to receive strong doctrine:

HOS 8:12. I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

MAT 9:17. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

JOH 6:60. Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

JOH 6:61. When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?

JOH 6:62. What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

JOH 6:63. It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

JOH 6:64. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

JOH 6:65. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

JOH 6:66. From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

I. Hardening heart to the truth:

MAT 13:15. For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

EPH 4:18. Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

EPH 4:19. Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

J. Doublemindedness & wavering:

2CH 25:2. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.

2CH 25:14. Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.

PSA 78:36. Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

PSA 78:37. For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

PSA 78:8. And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

PSA 78:9. The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

HOS 10:2. Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

JAM 1:6. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

JAM 1:7. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

JAM 1:8. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

EPH 4:14. That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

K. Refusing to receive correction:

PRO 14:9. Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.

PRO 15:10. Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

JOB 33:9. I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.

JOB 33:10. Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,

L. Not confessing problems & sins:

PRO 28:13. He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

JOH 3:19. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

JOH 3:20. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

ISA 29:15. Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

1SAM 15:1. Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.

1SAM 15:2. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

1SAM 15:3. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

1SAM 15:4. And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

1SAM 15:5. And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

1SAM 15:6. And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

1SAM 15:7. And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.

1SAM 15:8. And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

1SAM 15:9. But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

1SAM 15:10. Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,

1SAM 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 the LORD all night.

1SAM 15:12. And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.

1SAM 15:13. And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.

1SAM 15:14. And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

1SAM 15:15. And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

1SAM 15:16. Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.

1SAM 15:17. And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?

1SAM 15:18. And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

1SAM 15:19. Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?

1SAM 15:20. And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

1SAM 15:21. But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.

1SAM 15:22. And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

1SAM 15:23. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

1SAM 15:24. And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

1SAM 15:25. Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.

1SAM 15:26. 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.

1SAM 15:27. And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.

1SAM 15:28. And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.

1SAM 15:29. And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.

1SAM 15:30. Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.

1SAM 15:31. So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.

1SAM 15:32. Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

1SAM 15:33. And Samuel said, As the sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

1SAM 15:34. Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

1SAM 15:35. And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

M. Not responding to God's loving chastisement:

PRO 29:1. He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

ISA 1:5. Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

ISA 57:17. For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

JER 2:30. In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

ISA 42:25. Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

JER 5:3. O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

DAN 9:13. As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.

N. Allowing bitterness to grow:

HEB 12:15. Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

JAM 3:14. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

JAM 3:15. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

EPH 4:31. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

O. Being led astray with vain imaginations:

JER 7:24. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

JER 13:10. This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

JER 16:12. And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:

P. Idleness & gossiping:

1TIM 5:12. Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.

1TIM 5:13. And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

2TI 2:16. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

EPH 1:14. Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

1TIM 6:20. O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

1TIM 6:21. Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.

Q. Murmuring & ingratitude:

NUM 14:27. How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

NUM 14:28. Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

NUM 14:29. Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.

NUM 14:30. Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

NUM 11:1. And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

NUM 21:5. And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

NUM 21:6. And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

1COR 10:10. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

JUD 1:15. To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

JUD 1:16. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

R. Fellowshipping with malcontents:

PRO 6:12. A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

PRO 6:13. He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;

PRO 6:14. Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

PRO 6:15. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

PRO 6:16. These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

PRO 6:19. A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

PRO 13:20. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

1COR 15:33. Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

GAL 5:7. Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

LUK 6:45. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

1KI 11:4. 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.

S. Desiring fellowship with the world:

JAM 4:4. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

T. A lack of fear of the Lord: