Thesaurus / backslide
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They will no longer be tolerated, nor will converted Israel backslide again.
THE PROPHET EZEKIELARNO C. GAEBELEINIf thou turn us not, we shall never turn; it is in our nature to backslide for ever.
THE POWER OF FAITHISABELLA GRAHAMIt is a thing of very common occurrence, inside the different denominations, for their members to backslide, as they call it.
LIFE AND LABORS OF ELDER JOHN KLINE, THE MARTYR MISSIONARYJOHN KLINEBut one must go forward before one can backslide, and Kedzie was on the way up the slippery hill.
WE CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHINGRUPERT HUGHESMany of Balzac's women repent, and many of those that repent either backslide or come very near to it.
BALZACFREDERICK LAWTONHow many new converts who remain feeble; how many who fall into sin; how many who backslide entirely.
THE MINISTRY OF INTERCESSIONANDREW MURRAYIt is possible for every sinner to turn to God and escape punishment, and conversely for a righteous man to backslide and fall.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 13, SLICE 2VARIOUSHaving slept in a duchess's bed, Kedzie would not backslide.
WE CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHINGRUPERT HUGHESIt is not that all those who thus sadly backslide are allowed to fall into open sin.
LOUIS' SCHOOL DAYSE. J. MAYAnd I did hope that the convert was not tempted to backslide and swerve from the truth in his answers.
AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINAGEORGE ERNEST MORRISONWORDS RELATED TO BACKSLIDE
- abate
- backslide
- be precipitated
- break down
- buckle
- cascade
- cave in
- collapse
- crash
- decline
- decrease
- depreciate
- diminish
- dip
- dive
- drag
- droop
- drop down
- dwindle
- ease
- ebb
- flag
- flop
- fold up
- go down
- gravitate
- hit the dirt
- keel over
- land
- lapse
- lessen
- nose-dive
- pitch
- plummet
- plunge
- recede
- regress
- relapse
- settle
- sink
- slip
- slope
- slump
- spin
- stumble
- subside
- take a header
- tip over
- topple
- totter
- trail
- trip
- tumble
- wane
- abort
- back wrong horse
- backslide
- be defeated
- be demoted
- be found lacking
- be in vain
- be ruined
- blunder
- break down
- come to naught
- come to nothing
- decline
- deteriorate
- fall
- fall flat
- fall short
- fall through
- fizzle
- flop
- flounder
- fold
- founder
- go astray
- go down
- go down swinging
- go downhill
- go up in smoke
- go wrong
- hit bottom
- hit the skids
- lose control
- lose out
- lose status
- meet with disaster
- misfire
- miss
- miss fire
- miss the boat
- miss the mark
- play into
- run aground
- slip
- turn out badly
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