Luke 14:33
And so whoever is not ready to give up all he has may not be my disciple.
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Luke 14:33
And so whoever is not ready to give up all he has may not be my disciple.
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Genesis 22:12
And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.
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Genesis 35:4
Then they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob put them away under the holy tree at Shechem.
Exodus 32:20
And he took the ox which they had made, burning it in the fire and crushing it to powder, and he put it in the water and made the children of Israel take a drink of it.
Deuteronomy 7:25
The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:
Deuteronomy 7:26
And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.
Isaiah 2:20
In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;
Isaiah 2:21
To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.
Isaiah 30:22
And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!
Acts 19:19
And a great number of those who were experts in strange arts took their books and put them on the fire in front of everyone: and when the books were valued they came to fifty thousand bits of silver.
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Deuteronomy 13:6
If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your heart, or the friend who is as dear to you as your life, working on you secretly says to you, Let us go and give worship to other gods, strange to you and to your fathers;
Deuteronomy 13:7
Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other;
Deuteronomy 13:8
Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover;
Deuteronomy 33:10
They will be the teachers of your decisions to Jacob and of your law to Israel: the burning of perfumes before you will be their right, and the ordering of burned offerings on your altar.
2 Corinthians 5:16
For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.
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Deuteronomy 20:8
And let the overseers go on to say to the people, If there is any man whose heart is feeble with fear, let him go back to his house before he makes the hearts of his countrymen feeble.
Judges 7:3
So now, let it be given out to the people that anyone who is shaking with fear is to go back from Mount Galud. So twenty-two thousand of the people went back, but there were still ten thousand.
Psalms 78:9
The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.
Proverbs 25:19
Putting one's faith in a false man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a shaking foot.
James 1:8
For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways.
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Joshua 24:2
And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.
Joshua 24:3
And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac.
Acts 7:2
And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran,
Acts 7:4
Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now:
Acts 7:5
And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time.
Acts 7:6
And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.
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Joshua 24:16
Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods;
Joshua 24:17
For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went:
Joshua 24:18
And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God.
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Joshua 24:25
So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.
Joshua 24:26
And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and put it up there under the oak-tree which was in the holy place of the Lord.
Joshua 24:27
And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.
Joshua 24:28
Then Joshua let the people go away, every man to his heritage.
Ruth 1:8
And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go back to your mothers' houses: may the Lord be good to you as you have been good to the dead and to me:
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1 Samuel 16:2
And Samuel said, How is it possible for me to go? If Saul gets news of it he will put me to death. And the Lord said, Take a young cow with you and say, I have come to make an offering to the Lord.
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2 Samuel 15:19
Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, Why are you coming with us? go back and keep with the king: for you are a man of another country, you are far from the land of your birth.
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2 Samuel 15:20
It was only yesterday you came to us; why then am I to make you go up and down with us? for I have to go where I may; go back then, and take your countrymen with you, and may the Lord's mercy and good faith be with you.
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2 Kings 2:2
And Elijah said to Elisha, Come no farther for the Lord has sent me to Beth-el. But Elisha said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went down to Beth-el.
Luke 24:28
And they came near the town to which they were going, and he seemed as if he was going on;
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2 Chronicles 11:13
And the priests and Levites who were in all Israel came together to him from every part of their country.
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2 Chronicles 11:16
And after them, from all the tribes of Israel, all those whose hearts were fixed and true to the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to make offerings to the Lord, the God of their fathers.
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Job 31:29
If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;
Luke 14:35
It is no good for the land or for the place of waste; no one has a use for it. He who has ears, let him give ear.
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Psalms 45:11
So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.
Ephesians 5:32
This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.
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Matthew 4:20
And straight away they let go the nets and went after him.
Matthew 4:21
And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, in the boat with their father, stitching up their nets; and he said, Come.
Matthew 9:9
And when Jesus was going from there, he saw a man whose name was Matthew, seated at the place where taxes were taken; and he said to him, Come after me. And he got up and went after him.
Mark 1:16
And going by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew, the brother of Simon, putting a net into the sea: for they were fishermen.
Mark 2:14
And when he went by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, seated at the place where taxes were taken, and he said to him, Come with me. And he got up, and went with him.
Luke 5:37
And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins, for fear that the skins will be burst by the new wine, and the wine be let out, and the skins come to destruction.
Luke 6:14
Simon, to whom he gave the name of Peter, and Andrew, his brother, and James and John and Philip and Bartholomew
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Matthew 5:42
Give to him who comes with a request, and keep not your property from him who would for a time make use of it.
Matthew 6:25
So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?
Matthew 6:33
But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.
Matthew 7:12
All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.
Luke 6:31
Do to others as you would have them do to you.
Luke 10:27
And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself.
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Matthew 8:19
And there came a scribe and said to him, Master, I will come after you wherever you go.
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Matthew 8:20
And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have a resting-place; but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.
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Matthew 14:3
For Herod had taken John and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.
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Matthew 14:4
Because John had said to him, It is not right for you to have her.
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Matthew 20:22
But Jesus made answer and said, You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup which I am about to take?
Matthew 20:23
They say to him, We are able. He says to them, Truly, you will take of my cup: but to be seated at my right hand and at my left is not for me to give, but it is for those for whom my Father has made it ready.
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Matthew 23:13
But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.
Luke 9:2
And he sent them out to be preachers of the kingdom of God, and to make well those who were ill.
Luke 9:33
And when they were about to go away from him, Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah: having no knowledge of what he was saying.
Luke 13:25
When the master of the house has got up, and the door has been shut, and you, still outside, give blows on the door, saying, Lord, let us in; he will make answer and say, I have no knowledge of where you come from.
Luke 14:8
When you get a request to come to a feast, do not take the best seat, for a more important man than you may be coming,
John 10:9
I am the door: if any man goes in through me he will have salvation, and will go in and go out, and will get food.
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.
Acts 2:38
And Peter said, Let your hearts be changed, every one of you, and have baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will have the Holy Spirit given to you.
Acts 2:39
For the word of God is for you and for your children and for all those who are far off, even all those who may be marked out by the Lord our God.
Acts 2:40
And with more such words he gave his witness, offering them salvation and saying, Come out from this evil generation.
Acts 3:19
So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;
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Luke 5:23
Which is the simpler: to say, You have forgiveness for your sins; or to say, Get up and go?
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Matthew 10:22
And you will be hated by all men because of my name: but he who is strong to the end will have salvation.
Mark 6:6
And he was greatly surprised because they had no faith. And he went about the country places teaching.
Luke 9:23
And he said to them all, If any man has a desire to come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross every day, and come after me.
Luke 9:58
And Jesus said to him, Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have resting-places, but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.
John 8:31
Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;
John 12:25
He who is in love with life will have it taken from him; and he who has no care for his life in this world will keep it for ever and ever.
John 14:2
In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?
John 16:4
I have said these things to you so that when the time comes, what I have said may come to your mind. I did not say them to you at the first, because then I was still with you.
Acts 9:16
For I will make clear to him what troubles he will have to undergo for me.
1 Thessalonians 3:3
So that no man might be moved by these troubles; because you see that these things are part of God's purpose for us.
1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this reason, when I was no longer able to keep quiet, I sent to get news of your faith, fearing that you might be tested by the Evil One and that our work might come to nothing.
Titus 1:2
In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;
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Luke 19:6
And he came down quickly, and took him into his house with joy.
Luke 19:7
And when they saw it, they were all angry, saying, He has gone into the house of a sinner.
Acts 2:46
And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,
Acts 2:47
Giving praise to God, and having the approval of all the people; and every day the number of those who had salvation was increased by the Lord.
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Luke 21:1
And looking up, he saw the men of wealth putting their offerings in the money-box.
Luke 21:2
And he saw a certain poor widow putting in a farthing.
Luke 21:3
And he said, Truly I say to you, This poor widow has given more than all of them:
Luke 21:4
For they gave out of their wealth, having more than enough for themselves: but she, even out of her need, has put in all her living.
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Luke 22:33
And he said to him, Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.
Luke 22:34
And he said, I say to you, Peter, before the cock's second cry today, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me.
John 13:36
Simon Peter said to him, Lord, where are you going? Jesus said in answer, Where I am going you may not come with me now, but you will come later.
John 13:37
Peter said to him, Why may I not come with you even now? I will give up my life for you.
John 13:38
Jesus said in answer, Will you give up your life for me? Truly I say to you, Before the cry of the cock you will have said three times that you are not my disciple.
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John 6:44
No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.
John 6:60
Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching?
John 6:61
When Jesus became conscious that his disciples were protesting about what he said, he said to them, Does this give you trouble?
John 6:62
What then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was before?
John 6:63
The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life.
John 6:64
But still some of you have no faith. For it was clear to Jesus from the first who they were who had no faith, and who it was who would be false to him.
John 6:65
And he said, This is why I said to you, No man is able to come to me if he is not given the power to do so by the Father.
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Acts 8:19
Give me this power, so that when I put my hands on anyone he may get the Holy Spirit.
Acts 8:20
But Peter said, May your money come to destruction with you, because you had the idea that what is freely given by God may be got for a price.
Acts 8:21
You have no part in this business, because your heart is not right before God.
Acts 8:22
Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.
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Acts 13:13
Then Paul and those who were with him went by ship from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia: and there John went away from them and came back to Jerusalem.
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Acts 15:38
But Paul was of the opinion that it was not right to take with them one who had gone away from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone on with the work.
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Mark 8:34
And turning to the mass of people with his disciples, he said to them, If any man has the desire to come after me, let him give up all other desires, and take up his cross and come after me.
Mark 10:30
Who will not get a hundred times as much now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land--though with great troubles; and, in the world to come, eternal life.
Mark 10:31
But a great number who are first will be last: and those who are last will be first.
Luke 14:23
And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the roads and the fields, and make them come in, so that my house may be full.
Luke 17:32
Keep in mind Lot's wife.
John 12:26
If any man is my servant, let him come after me; and where I am, there will my servant be. If any man becomes my servant, my Father will give him honour.
John 15:8
Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples.
Acts 21:13
Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Philippians 2:21
For they all go after what is theirs, not after the things of Christ.
Colossians 3:1
If then you have a new life with Christ, give your attention to the things of heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, and all whose purpose is to be living in the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus, will be cruelly attacked.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being moved by the fear of God, made ready an ark for the salvation of his family, because God had given him news of things which were not seen at the time; and through it the world was judged by him, and he got for his heritage the righteousness which is by faith.
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Romans 15:1
We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.
Romans 15:2
Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.
Romans 15:3
For Christ did not give pleasure to himself, but, as it is said, The bitter words of those who were angry with you came on me.
1 Corinthians 8:13
For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.
1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I was free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that more might have salvation.
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1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God's purpose for us is not wrath, but salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;
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2 Thessalonians 1:4
So that we ourselves take pride in you in the churches of God for your untroubled mind and your faith in all the troubles and sorrows which you are going through;
2 Thessalonians 1:5
Which is a clear sign of the decision which God in his righteousness has made; to give you a part in his kingdom, for which you have undergone this pain;
2 Thessalonians 1:6
For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you,
2 Thessalonians 1:7
And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire,
2 Thessalonians 1:8
To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:
2 Thessalonians 1:9
Whose reward will be eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,
2 Thessalonians 1:10
At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith (because our witness among you had effect) in that day.
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Luke 16:13
No man may be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other; or he will keep to the one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
Luke 18:24
And Jesus, looking at him, said, How hard it is for those who have wealth to get into the kingdom of God!
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:17
Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;
1 Timothy 6:18
And to do good, having wealth in good works, being quick to give, taking part with one another;
1 Timothy 6:19
Making ready for themselves a safe place for the time to come, so that the true life may be theirs.
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2 Peter 1:13
And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory;
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2 Peter 1:14
For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
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1 John 5:4
Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.
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1 John 5:5
Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?
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Proverbs 9:6
Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.
Ezekiel 18:27
Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.
Ezekiel 18:28
Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.
Ezekiel 18:29
But still the children of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, are my ways not equal? are not your ways unequal?
Matthew 3:2
Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near.
Matthew 3:8
Let your change of heart be seen in your works:
Matthew 7:14
For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.
Matthew 18:2
And he took a little child, and put him in the middle of them,
Matthew 18:3
And said, Truly, I say to you, If you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven.
Luke 3:8
Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham.
Revelation 18:4
And another voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Come out of her, my people, so that you may have no part in her sins and in her punishments.
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Ruth 1:14
Then again they were weeping; and Orpah gave her mother-in-law a kiss, but Ruth would not be parted from her.
Matthew 13:21
But having no root in himself, he goes on for a time; and when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, he quickly becomes full of doubts.
Matthew 18:8
And if your hand or your foot is a cause of trouble, let it be cut off and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with the loss of a hand or a foot than, having two hands or two feet, to go into the eternal fire.
Mark 10:21
And Jesus, looking on him and loving him, said, There is one thing needed: go, get money for your goods, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come with me.
Luke 9:59
And he said to another, Come after me. But he said, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father.
Romans 8:13
For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.
1 Corinthians 9:27
But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.
Galatians 5:24
And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.
Titus 2:12
Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;
Hebrews 3:12
My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:
Revelation 17:14
These will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because he is the Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are named, marked out, and true.
Revelation 21:8
But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
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