Job 34:27

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Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

then let not him that is on the house-top venture down to secure his furniture: and he that is in the field, let him not return back.

but Paul did not think it proper to take one that had quitted them at Pamphylia, refusing to accompany them in their ministry.

for Damas, out of love to this world has abandon'd me, and is gone to Thessalonica: Crescens, to Galatia: and Titus, to Dalmatia.

as for us, we are not such as desert to their own destruction; but such as persevere in the faith, to the saving of our souls.