As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them said, ‘Run for your lives! Don’t look back and don’t stop anywhere on the plain! Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away! ’
Philippians 3:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But whatever former things I had that might have been gains to me, I have come to consider as [one combined] loss for Christ's sake. American Standard Version (1901) Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ. Common English Bible These things were my assets, but I wrote them off as a loss for the sake of Christ. Catholic Public Domain Version But the things which had been to my gain, the same have I considered a loss, for the sake of Christ. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for Christ. |
As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them said, ‘Run for your lives! Don’t look back and don’t stop anywhere on the plain! Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away! ’
‘Skin for skin! ’ Satan answered the Lord. ‘A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life.
Riches are a ransom for a person’s life, but a poor person hears no threat.
Buy #– #and do not sell #– #truth, wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
a time to search and a time to count as lost; a time to keep and a time to throw away;
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?
‘If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters #– #yes, and even his own life #– #he cannot be my disciple.
In the same way, therefore, every one of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.
‘The master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the children of this age are more shrewd than the children of light in dealing with their own people.
When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by throwing the grain overboard into the sea.
For he considered reproach for the sake of Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, since he was looking ahead to the reward.