Now, however, when you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are beginning to turn back to those weak and beggarly externalities, eager to be in bondage to them again?

or even going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off at once to Arabia, and on my return came back to Damascus.

For until certain men came from James he used to eat with the Gentile Christians, but when they came, he began to draw back and to separate himself, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

For he who wrongs another will be paid back for his wrong-doing, and there will be no favoritism.

For truly God's justice must render back trouble to those who are troubling you,

And now you know what is holding him back, to the end that he may be revealed in his appointed time.

I am sending him back to you, he himself, that is, my very heart!

Perhaps for this reason you were separated from him for an hour, in order that you might have him back forever,

Look! the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have been keeping back by fraud, are crying aloud! And the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth!

My brothers, if any one of you strays from the truth, and some one brings him back,

let him know that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his ways, saves his soul from death, and hides a multitude of sins.

He was reviled, and reviled not back. When he suffered he never threatened but always committed his cause to the One who judges rightly.

not paying back evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but on the contrary giving a blessing. Because for this you have been called??o inherit a blessing.

Indeed it would have been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.

But it is by faith that my Righteous One will live, And if he draws back, my soul takes no pleasure in him.

For he accounted God able even to raise from the dead, from whence, figuratively speaking, he did indeed receive him back again.

Look carefully that there be no one who falls back from the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up to trouble you, and by its means many become defiled.

Then I saw lying upon the right hand of Him who sat upon the throne, a book written within and on the back, close sealed with seven seals.