Job 34:27

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

"On that day, if a man is on the housetop and his goods inside, let him not go down to take them away; nor should a man in the field turn back.

But Paul thought it unwise to take with them one who had deserted them to the Pamphylia, and had not gone on with them to the work.

for Demas has deserted me for love of this present world, and is gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is gone to Galatia; Titus to Dalmatia.

"But we are not of defections unto perdition, but of faith unto the gaining of the soul."