But יהושע said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of Elohim.”
And he left the oxen and ran after Ěliyahu, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I follow you.” And he said to him, “Go, turn back, for what have I done to you?”
Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold of it yet, but only this: forgetting what is behind and reaching out for what lies ahead,
for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and went to Thessalonike, Crescens to Galatia, Titos to Dalmatia.
“But the righteous shall live by belief, but if anyone draws back, my being has no pleasure in him.”