6 Bible Verses about Looking Backward
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Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead,
When they had brought them outside, they said, "Run for your lives! Don't look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!"
But Lot's wife looked back longingly and was turned into a pillar of salt.
We remember the fish we used to eat freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
So they said to one another, "Let's appoint a leader and return to Egypt."
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