But Paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.
Now Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem,
he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.
The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.
Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.”
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