In them is verified the truth of the proverb, "A dog turns back to what he has vomited"; and of that other proverb, "A sow that has washed herself goes back to wallow in the mire."

And if you ever lend to people expecting to get it back, what credit do you get for that? Even notorious sinners practice lending to one another, expecting to get it back in full.

He said to him, 'Your brother has come back, and your father has killed the fattening calf, because he has gotten him back safe and sound.'

As soon as day came, the elders of the people, the high priests, and the scribes assembled, and brought Him back before their council, and said,

Then Herod and his bodyguard treated Him with contempt and made sport of Him and put a gorgeous robe on Him and sent Him back to Pilate.

No; nor does Herod, for he has sent Him back to us. Indeed, He has done nothing to deserve the death penalty.

Then they went back home, and prepared spices and perfumes.

But they found the boulder rolled back from the tomb,

So at once they got up and went back to Jerusalem and found the Eleven and their company all together,

And with great joy they went back to Jerusalem;

He left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

He said to her, "Go and call your husband and come back here."

The woman then left her pitcher and went back to town and said to the people,

and He may send back Jesus, the Christ who long ago was appointed for you.

When they were turned loose, the apostles went back to their companions and told them what the high priests and elders had said to them.

and, with his wife's full knowledge of it, kept back for themselves a part of the money and brought only a part of it and put it at the disposal of the apostles.

And Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan so completely possessed your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and kept back for yourselves a part of the money received for the land?

But the attendants who went for them could not find them in the jail, and so came back and

Then the military commander went with his attendants and brought them back, but without any violence, for they were afraid of being pelted with stones by the people.

and were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb which Abraham had bought with a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

Because I have seen the oppression of my people in Egypt and heard their groans, I have come down to deliver them. So come! I will send you back to Egypt as my messenger.'

So after they had given their testimony and spoken the Lord's message, they started back to Jerusalem, and on the way continued to tell the good news in many Samaritan villages.

And all who heard him were astounded and said, "Is not this the man who harassed those who called upon this name in Jerusalem, and has come here expressly for the purpose of putting them in chains and taking them back to the high priests?"

So when the brothers found this out, they took him down to Caesarea, and from there sent him back to Tarsus.

He gave her his hand and lifted her to her feet, and calling in the Lord's people and the widows, he gave her back to them alive.

This took place three times; then all at once the whole thing was drawn back into the sky.

But the disciples formed a circle about him, and he got up and went back to town. The next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.

and from there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had first been committed to God's favor for the work which they had finished.

After spending some time there, they were sent back with a greeting to those who sent them.

Some days after this Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we preached the Lord's message, to see how they are."

The men who acted as Paul's bodyguard took him all the way to Athens, and then went back with orders for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible.

But as he bade them goodbye, he promised, "I will come back to you again, if it is God's will." Then he set sail from Ephesus.

So he went back upstairs, and broke the bread and ate with them, and after talking with them extendedly, even till daylight, he left them.

there we bade one another goodbye, and we went aboard the ship, while they went back.

as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. Indeed, I had received letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, and I was on the way there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

After I had come back to Jerusalem, one day while I was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance,

Since the dispute kept growing hotter and hotter, the colonel became alarmed that Paul might be torn in pieces by them, and so ordered the army to march down and take him out of their hands and bring him back to the barracks.

So they came back here with me, and I made no delay to take my seat on the judge's bench, and ordered the man to be brought in.

For this is the language of the promise, "About this time next year I will come back, and Sarah will have a son."

On the contrary, friend, who are you anyway that you would answer back to God? Can the clay that is molded ask the man who molds it, "Why did you make me like this?"

for the gracious gifts and call of God are never taken back.

Or who has ever advanced God anything to have Him pay him back?

Stop taking revenge on one another, beloved, but leave a place for God's anger, for the Scripture says, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back, says the Lord."

But as it now is, brothers, if I do come back to you speaking in ecstasy, what good shall I do you, unless my speech contains a revelation or new knowledge or a prophetic message or some teaching?

But someone will ask, "How can the dead rise? With what kind of body do they come back?"

On the first day of every week each of you must put aside and store up something in proportion as he is prospered, so that no contributions need be made when I come back.

So no one must slight him at all. But send him on with your goodbye, that he may come back to me, for I am expecting him with the other brothers.

that is, to go by you on my way to Macedonia, and then to come back to you from Macedonia, and have you send me on to Judea.

To pay me back, I tell you, my children, you too must stretch your hearts with love for me.

and that when I come back my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over some of those who formerly have committed shocking sins, and have not repented for them -- their impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality, which once they practiced.

I have already warned those who formerly committed shocking sins, and all the rest, and though so far away I warn them now, as I did on my second visit, that if I come back I will not spare them,

For before the coming of certain people from James, he was in the habit of eating with heathen Christians, but after they came, he began to draw back and hold aloof from them, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

but now, since you have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by Him, how can you turn back to your own crude notions, so weak and worthless, and wish to become slaves to them again?

So he sent them to Bethlehem with this order, "Go and carefully search for the child, and when you find Him, bring back word to me, and I too may come and do Him homage."

But I think it proper now to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow-laborer, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger to minister to my needs,

For the man who wrongs another will be paid back the wrong he has done; and there are no exceptions.

But now, since Timothy has just come back to me from you, and brought me good tidings of your faith and love, and told me how kindly you remembered me and that you are longing to see me as much as I am to see you,

so that He may strengthen your hearts to be faultless in purity in the sight of God, when our Lord Jesus comes back with all His consecrated ones.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then through Jesus, God will bring back with Him those who have fallen asleep.

For on the Lord's own authority we say that those of us who may be left behind and are still living when the Lord comes back, will have no advantage at all over those who have fallen asleep.

Take care that none of you ever pays back evil for evil, but always keep looking for ways to show kindness to one another and everybody.

May God Himself, who gave you peace, consecrate your whole being. May you be safely kept, spirit, soul, and body, so as to be blameless when our Lord Jesus Christ comes back.

So now you know the power that is holding him back, that he is to be unveiled at His own appointed time.

For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work, but only until he who is holding it back has been gotten out of the way.

leave your grit right there at the altar, and first go and make peace with your brother, and then come back and present your gift.

For exactly as you criticize others, you will be criticized, and in accordance with the measure that you give to others, it will be measured back to you.

When He got back to Capernaum, a Roman military captain came up to Him and kept begging Him,

Another of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, let me first go back and bury my father."