And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.”
Philippians 3:7 - English Standard Version 2016 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake 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. |
And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.”
But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.
The ransom of a man’s life is his wealth, but a poor man hears no threat.
Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.
And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.