Jesus said to him, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
He left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” Then Elijah said to him, “Go back again; for what have I done to you?”
Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
for Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
but my righteous one will live by faith. My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back.”