When they brought them outside, one said, “Flee for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stop anywhere in the surrounding area! Escape to the hills, or else you’ll be swept away!”
Philippians 3:7 - Tree of Life Version But whatever things were gain to me, these I have considered as loss for the sake of the Messiah. 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 brought them outside, one said, “Flee for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stop anywhere in the surrounding area! Escape to the hills, or else you’ll be swept away!”
The satan replied to Adonai saying, “Skin for skin! A man will give up all he has for his own life.
A man’s riches may ransom his life, but a poor person hears no threat.
Acquire truth and do not sell it, acquire wisdom, instruction and understanding.
a time to seek and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to discard;
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters—and yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
So in the same way, whoever does not renounce all that he has, cannot be My disciple.
“Now the master praised the crooked manager because he had acted shrewdly, for the sons of this age are smarter when dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.
When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship, throwing the wheat into the sea.
He considered the disgrace of Messiah as greater riches than the treasures of Egypt—because he was looking ahead to the reward.