Acts 13:13
Paul and Barnabas at Pisidian Antioch
13:13 Then Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia, but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.
Psalms 78:9
78:9 The Ephraimites were armed with bows,
but they retreated in the day of battle.
Proverbs 25:19
25:19 Like a bad tooth or a foot out of joint,
so is confidence in an unfaithful person at the time of trouble.
Luke 9:61
9:61 Yet
another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to my family.”
Luke 14:27-34
14:27 Whoever does not carry his own cross
and follow
me cannot be my disciple.
14:28 For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down
first and compute the cost
to see if he has enough money to complete it?
14:29 Otherwise,
when he has laid
a foundation and is not able to finish the tower,
all who see it
will begin to make fun of
him.
14:30 They will say,
‘This man
began to build and was not able to finish!’
14:31 Or what king, going out to confront another king in battle, will not sit down
first and determine whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose
the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
14:32 If he cannot succeed,
he will send a representative
while the other is still a long way off and ask for terms of peace.
14:33 In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.
14:34 “Salt is good, but if salt loses its flavor, how can its flavor be restored?
James 1:8
1:8 since he is a double-minded individual,
unstable in all his ways.