But Jesus said to him, No man, having put his hand to a plow, and looking to things behind, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Brothers, I reckon myself not to have seized, but one thing, indeed forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to the things ahead,
But the righteous man will live from faith, and if he should withdraw, my soul is not pleased with him.
for Demas forsook me having loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said to him, Go back again, for what have I done to thee?