But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.""
Mark 8: 36 - 38
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? 37 Or 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, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed 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 pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.
Ezra 8: 22 b
The hand of our God is upon all those for good who seek Him, but His power and His wrath are against all those who forsake Him.
Gal 5: 1
Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
Rev 3: 11 b
"Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown."
Heb 11: 15, 16
And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
Dan 12: 2
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt.
