⁶² But Jesus said, No man, having put his hand to the plough and looking back, is good enough for the kingdom of God.

¹³ Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before,

³⁸ But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.

²⁰ For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

²¹ For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.

²² They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.

⁸ And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

⁹ The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.

³¹ On that day, if anyone is on the roof of the house, and his goods are in the house, let him not go down to take them away; and let him who is in the field not go back to his house.

³² Keep in mind Lot's wife.

³⁷ And Barnabas had a desire to take with them John, named Mark.

³⁸ But Paul was of the opinion that it was not right to take with them one who had gone away from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone on with the work.

¹⁰ For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

⁶ Let him make his request in faith, doubting nothing; for he who has doubt in his heart is like the waves of the sea, which are troubled by the driving of the wind.

⁷ Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord;

⁸ For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways.