Jesus answered him, »No one who has put his hand to the plough, and then looks behind him, is fit for the Kingdom of God.
Brethren, I do not imagine that I have yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do–forgetting everything which is past and stretching forward to what lies in front of me,
For Demas has deserted me –loving, as he does, the present age– and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
But it is by faith that My righteous servant shall live; and if he shrinks back, My soul takes no pleasure in him.«