Luke 17:32

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there. Those who remained fled to the hills.

Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.

Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”

Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

Flee! Save your lives! Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.

Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says Yahweh.

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.

Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

Some men’s sins are evident, preceding them to judgment, and some also follow later.

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one other.

The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.

“ ‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.

“Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is unclean by a corpse.

They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”

even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”

Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt.

Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you would never see it again. There you will offer yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.

They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.

Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?”

Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and your son Solomon’s life.

Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,

But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”

Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and are turned backward. Their mighty ones are beaten down, have fled in haste, and don’t look back. Terror is on every side,” says Yahweh.

Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.

They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.

and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,

For already some have turned away after Satan.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.