The 28 most commonly referenced don’t look back Bible verses include the following:
- Genesis 19:17
“So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, Escape for your life! Do not look behind you or stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.’”
2. Genesis 19:26
“But his wife (Lot’s wife) looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.”
3. 1 Samuel 15:10–11
“Now the word of the LORD came to Samuel, saying, ‘I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me and has not performed My commandments.’”
4. Psalm 14:2-3
“The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there are any who understand and who seek God. They have all turned aside; they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, no, not one.”
5. Psalm 78:9
“The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.”
6. Psalm 125:5
“As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!”
7. Proverbs 1:32
“For the turning away of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.”
8. Proverbs 14:14
“The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways, but a good man will be satisfied from above.”
9. Isaiah 1:4
“Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the LORD; they have provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel; they have turned away backward.”
10. Jeremiah 2:13
“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.”
11. Jeremiah 2:19
“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backslidings will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and the fear of Me is not in you, says the Lord God of hosts.”
12. Jeremiah 3:22
“Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your “Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.” “Indeed, we do come to You, for You are the LORD our God.’”
13. Jeremiah 5:6
“Therefore a lion from the forest shall slay them; a wolf of the deserts shall destroy them; a leopard will watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces. Because their transgressions are many, their backslidings have increased.”
14. Jeremiah 14:7
“O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do it for Your name’s sake; for our backslidings are many. We have sinned against You.”
15. Jeremiah 15:6
“You have forsaken Me, says the LORD; you have gone backward. Therefore, I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you; I am weary of relenting!”
16. Jeremiah 17:5
“Thus says the LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD.’”
17. Hosea 11:7
“My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they call to the Most High, none at all exalt Him.”
18. Zephaniah 1:6
“Those who have turned back from following the LORD and have not sought the LORD nor inquired of Him.”
19. Luke 9:62
“But Jesus said to him, No one, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.’”
20. Luke 17:31-32
“In that day, he who is on the housetop and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise, the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. Remember Lot’s wife.”
21. James 1:6-8
“But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”
22. 2 Timothy 4:10
“For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica—Crescens for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia.”
23. Philippians 3:13-14
“Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things that are behind and reaching forward to those things that are ahead, is press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
24. Hebrews 3:12
“Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God.”
25. Hebrews 10:37-39
“For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise: ‘For yet a little while, and He who is coming will come and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back, my soul has no pleasure in him.’ But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.”
26. 2 Peter 2:15
“They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; but he was rebuked for his iniquity; a dumb donkey speaking with a man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet.”
27. 2 Peter 2:20–22
“For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to his own vomit and ‘a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.’”
28. 1 John 2:15–17
“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of this world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.”
Conclusion
This article identified Bible verses that are centered on the theme of looking back. From the identified scriptures, we discover that the term ‘look back’ means to depart or turn aside from the ways of God. It means to backslide from following the path of truth and instead go back to one’s old lifestyle. The Scriptures spell out grave consequences for all who draw back from following God. Therefore, we should aim to stick in there no matter the challenges life throws at us. Remember, the Bible has promised that He who called us is faithful to see us through the journey of faith (1 Thessalonians 5:24). With this kind of assurance, we need to keep on keeping on and never look back! I hope this was helpful. Thank you, and Shalom.
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My name is Nicodemus. I'm a Kenyan by birth. I got saved over 30 years ago while in high school.
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