But Jesus said to him, "No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."
Mark 8: 36 - 38
"For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? 37 For what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 38 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels."
Luke 17: 32
"Remember Lot's wife."
2 Pet 2: 20, 21
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
Ezra 8: 22 b
The hand of our God is favorably disposed to all those who seek Him, but His power and His anger are against all those who forsake Him.
Gal 5: 1
It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.
Rev 3: 11 b
"Hold fast what you have, so that no one will take your crown."
Heb 11: 15, 16
And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.
Dan 12: 2
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.
