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Luke 9:62

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60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

61 And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.

And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
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BSB
Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
KJV
And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
WEB
But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”
ASV
But Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
DARBY
But Jesus said to him, No one having laid his hand on [the] plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.
BLB
But Jesus said to him, “No one having laid the hand upon the plow and looking to the things behind is fit for the kingdom of God.”
ÅB
Men Jesus sa til ham: Ingen som legger sin hånd på plogen og ser seg tilbake, er skikket for Guds rike.
OTB
Jesus svarte: "Ingen som setter en hånd på plogen og ser seg tilbake, er skikket for tjeneste i Guds rike."
B1930
Men Jesus sa til ham: Ingen som legger sin hånd på plogen og ser sig tilbake, er skikket for Guds rike.

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  • Philippians 3:13

    Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

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  • Hebrews 10:38

    Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

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  • 2 Peter 2:20–22

    For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

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  • Luke 17:31–32

    In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

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  • James 1:6–8

    But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

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  • Psalms 78:8–9

    And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

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  • 2 Timothy 4:10

    For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

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  • Acts 15:37–38

    And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.

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