Jesus said to him, "No one is any use to the Reign of God who puts his hand to the plough and then looks behind him."
Brothers, I for one do not consider myself to have appropriated this; my one thought is, by forgetting what lies behind me and straining to what lies before me,
Meantime my just man shall live on by his faith; if he shrinks back, my soul takes no delight in him.
for Demas, in his love for this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is off to Gaul, Titus to Dalmatia,