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Philippians 3:7-8
But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ.More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them as dung, so that I may gain Christ
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Luke 9:24-25
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will save it.For what does it benefit someone if he gains the whole world, and yet loses or forfeits himself?
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Matthew 16:25-26
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will find it.For what will it benefit someone if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will anyone give in exchange for his life?
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Mark 8:35-37
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and the gospel will save it.For what does it benefit someone to gain the whole world and yet lose his life?What can anyone give in exchange for his life?
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Hebrews 10:34-35
For you sympathized with the prisoners and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, because you know that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession.So don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
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Acts 27:19
On the third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.
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Ecclesiastes 11:1
Send your bread on the surface of the water, for after many days you may find it.
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Genesis 30:30-43
For you had very little before I came, but now your wealth has increased. The LORD has blessed you because of me. And now, when will I also do something for my own family?”Laban asked,“ What should I give you?” And Jacob said,“ You don’t need to give me anything. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to shepherd and keep your flock.Let me go through all your sheep today and remove every sheep that is speckled or spotted, every dark-colored sheep among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the female goats. Such will be my wages.In the future when you come to check on my wages, my honesty will testify for me. If I have any female goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not black, they will be considered stolen.”“ Good,” said Laban.“ Let it be as you have said.”That day Laban removed the streaked and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats— every one that had any white on it— and every dark-colored one among the lambs, and he placed his sons in charge of them.He put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob. Jacob, meanwhile, was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flock.Jacob then took branches of fresh poplar, almond, and plane wood, and peeled the bark, exposing white stripes on the branches.He set the peeled branches in the troughs in front of the sheep— in the water channels where the sheep came to drink. And the sheep bred when they came to drink.The flocks bred in front of the branches and bore streaked, speckled, and spotted young.Jacob separated the lambs and made the flocks face the streaked sheep and the completely dark sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and didn’t put them with Laban’s sheep.Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs, in full view of the flocks, and they would breed in front of the branches.As for the weaklings of the flocks, he did not put out the branches. So it turned out that the weak sheep belonged to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.And the man became very rich. He had many flocks, female and male slaves, and camels and donkeys.
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Psalms 112:9
He distributes freely to the poor; his righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted in honor.
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Deuteronomy 8:17-18
You may say to yourself,‘ My power and my own ability have gained this wealth for me,’but remember that the LORD your God gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm his covenant he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.
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Mark 10:28-30
Peter began to tell him,“ Look, we have left everything and followed you.”“ Truly I tell you,” Jesus said,“ there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,who will not receive a hundred times more, now at this time— houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions— and eternal life in the age to come.
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Matthew 19:29
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields because of my name will receive a hundred times more and will inherit eternal life.
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2 Kings 5 26
“ And my heart didn’t go when the man got down from his chariot to meet you,” Elisha said.“ Is this a time to accept silver and clothing, olive orchards and vineyards, flocks and herds, and male and female slaves?
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Acts 27:38
When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by throwing the grain overboard into the sea.
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Genesis 31:18
He took all the livestock and possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, and he drove his herds to go to the land of Canaan, to his father Isaac.
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Isaiah 2:20
On that day people will throw their worthless idols of silver and gold, which they made to worship, to the moles and the bats.
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Jonah 1:5
The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his god. They threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel and had stretched out and fallen into a deep sleep.
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Exodus 12:35-36
The Israelites acted on Moses’s word and asked the Egyptians for silver and gold items and for clothing.And the LORD gave the people such favor with the Egyptians that they gave them what they requested. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.
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2 Kings 8 9
Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift: forty camel-loads of all the finest products of Damascus. When he came and stood before him, he said,“ Your son, King Ben-hadad of Aram, has sent me to ask you,‘ Will I recover from this sickness?’”
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2 Kings 7 15
So they followed them as far as the Jordan. They saw that the whole way was littered with clothes and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in their haste. The messengers returned and told the king.
