³⁸ But Paul didn't think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn't go with them to do the work.

¹³ Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.

⁹ The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.

¹⁹ Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble Is like a bad tooth, or a lame foot.

⁶¹ Another also said, "I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to bid farewell to those who are at my house."

²⁷ Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.

²⁸ For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

²⁹ Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

³⁰ saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'

³¹ Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

³² Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.

³³ So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.

³⁴ Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?

⁸ He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.