According to the Bible, Christians can:
- drift away (Heb. 2:1) NIV
- stray (Mt. 18:12,13) NWT
- wander away from the faith (1 Tim. 6:10,21)
- deviate from the truth and overturn the faith of some (2 Tim. 2:18) HCSB
- lose your saltiness (Lk. 14:34,35) NRSV
- stumble (Mk. 14:27,29) NKJV
- turn away from grace (Gal. 5:4) Bible in Basic English
- believe for a time, and in time of trial fall away. (Lk. 8:13) Darby
- stumble and fall (Mt. 24:10) Wesley NT
- stray from these things, turn aside to fruitless discussion (1 Tim. 1:5,6) NASB
- turn back to their old ways of living and not go along with Jesus after that (Jn. 6:66) New Life
- have your faith shipwrecked (1 Tim. 1:19) Recovery Version
- leave the right path and wander off to follow the path of Balaam (2 Pet. 2:15) NJB
- be like a branch that is thrown away and dries up (Jn. 15:6) Beck
- fall over stumbling blocks (Jn. 16:1) C.B. Williams
- turn away, become Satan's follower (1 Tim. 5:15) Heinz Casirrer New Covenant
- desert from the faith (1 Tim. 4:1) Barclay
- turn their hearing away from the truth and turned aside to myths (2 Tim. 4:4) Concordant
- develop an evil unbelieving heart that pulls away from the living God (Heb. 3:12) International English Bible
- fall away from the faith so that it won't be possible to bring you back (Heb. 6:6) NIrV
- turn away from him who warneth us from heaven (Heb. 12:25) Worrell NT
- become lukewarm and get spit out of the mouth of Christ (Rev. 3:15,16) 21st Century NT
- to be hurt by the second death (Rev. 2:10,11) Byington
- have God take away your rights to the Tree of Life and the holy city (Rev. 22:19) Unvarnished NT/Gaus
- be led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. (2 Pet. 3:17) KJV
- be carried away with strange varieities of teachings (Heb. 13:9)
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