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Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

‘Your brother has returned,’ he said, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has him back safe and sound.’

When one of them saw that he was healed, he came back, praising God in a loud voice.

But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

And even Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked Him. Dressing Him in a fine robe, they sent Him back to Pilate.

Neither has Herod, for he sent Him back to us. As you can see, He has done nothing deserving of death.

Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

Then the woman left her water jar, went back into the town, and said to the people,

From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.

Early in the morning He went back into the temple courts. All the people came to Him, and He sat down to teach them.

Then He told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.

Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had first been baptizing, and He stayed there.

…and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”

“Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”

After Martha had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside to tell her, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”

Leaning back against Jesus, he asked, “Lord, who is it?”

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.

You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

When Jesus said, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground.

“Put your sword back in its sheath!” Jesus said to Peter. “Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given Me?”

Pilate went back into the Praetorium, summoned Jesus, and asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

…and he went back into the Praetorium. “Where are You from?” he asked. But Jesus gave no answer.

Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them. He was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper to ask, “Lord, who is going to betray You?”

“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven.”

Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,

With his wife’s full knowledge, he kept back some of the proceeds for himself, but brought a portion and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.

I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’

But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

This happened three times, and all at once the sheet was taken back up into heaven.

This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into heaven.

…and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.

But after the disciples had gathered around him, he got up and went back into the city. And the next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.

Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”

But as he left, he said, “I will come back to you if God is willing.” And he set sail from Ephesus.

…where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.

Then Paul went back upstairs, broke bread, and ate. And after speaking until daybreak, he departed.

I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,

For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.

At once those who were about to interrogate Paul stepped back, and the commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put a Roman citizen in chains.

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.

But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

But I thought it necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my needs.

I am sending back to you him who is my very heart.

For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a while, so that you might have him back for good—

But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”

But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.

Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,

My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back,

Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

And before the throne was something like a sea of glass, as clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, covered with eyes in front and back.

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back its four winds so that no wind would blow on land or sea or on any tree.

Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.

Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.

Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.

The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were complete. This is the first resurrection.