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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 filth, 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.What is a man benefited if he gains the whole world, 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.What will it benefit a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will a man 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 a man to gain the whole world yet lose his life?What can a man 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, knowing 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 gear overboard with their own hands.
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Ecclesiastes 11:1
Send your bread on the surface of the waters, 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 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, male and female 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 fathers, 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.”“ I assure you,” Jesus said,“ there is no one who has left house, brothers or sisters, mother or father, children, or fields because of Me and the gospel,who will not receive 100 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, brothers or sisters, father or mother, children, or fields because of My name will receive 100 times more and will inherit eternal life.
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2 Kings 5 26
But Elisha questioned him,“ Wasn’t my spirit there when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to accept money and clothes, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, 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 his father Isaac in Canaan.
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Isaiah 2:20
On that day people will throw their silver and gold idols, 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’ word and asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing.And the Lord gave the people such favor in the Egyptians’ sight 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: 40 camel-loads of all kinds of goods from Damascus. When he came and stood before him, he said,“ Your son, Ben-hadad king 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.
