When they had brought them outside, they said, “Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the Plain; flee to the hills, or else you will be consumed.”
Philippians 3:7 - New Revised Standard Version Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as 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. |
When they had brought them outside, they said, “Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the Plain; flee to the hills, or else you will be consumed.”
But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Then Satan answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! All that people have they will give to save their lives.
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 throw away;
For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?
“Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.
So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions.
And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.
After they had satisfied their hunger, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.
He considered abuse suffered for the Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to the reward.