Looking Back

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. — read the full passage →

He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.” — read the full passage →

Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this.

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. — read the full passage →

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; — read the full passage →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Remember Lot’s wife!

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. — read the full passage →

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me. — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back. — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. — read the full passage →

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

The same was in the beginning with God.

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound; — read the full passage →

for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.” — read the full passage →

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. — read the full passage →

“I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”

Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples,

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

So he departed there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed over to him, and cast his mantle on him. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Come, and see.” They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”

See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”

So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them, — read the full passage →

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?” — read the full passage →