Acts 15:38

WEB

³⁸But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the work.

KJV

³⁸But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

BSB

³⁸But Paul thought it best not to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.

FBV

³⁸But Paul didn't think it was a good idea to take him with them, since he'd left them in Pamphylia and hadn't continued working with them.

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Acts 13:13

¹³Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.

Psalms 78:9

⁹The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

James 1:8

⁸He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

²⁷Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross and come after me, can’t be my disciple. ²⁸For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? ²⁹Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him, ³⁰saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’ ³¹Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? ³²Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace. ³³So therefore, whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

³⁴“Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?

Proverbs 25:19

¹⁹Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a lame foot.

Luke 9:61

⁶¹Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”