Mark 8:36
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
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Mark 8:36
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
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Numbers 14:24
But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.
John 13:36
Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards.”
John 13:37
Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
John 21:19
Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”
John 21:22
Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”
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1 Samuel 12:20
Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don’t turn away from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart.
1 Samuel 12:21
Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.
Jeremiah 2:8
The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.
Habakkuk 2:18
“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
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Proverbs 5:8
Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,
Proverbs 5:9
lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;
Proverbs 5:10
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.
Proverbs 5:11
You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
Proverbs 5:12
and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
Proverbs 5:13
I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
Proverbs 5:14
I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”
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Proverbs 13:8
The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.
Jeremiah 41:8
But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, “Don’t kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey.” So he stopped, and didn’t kill them among their brothers.
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Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
Philippians 1:20
according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
Philippians 1:21
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
2 Timothy 4:6
For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:8
From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
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Proverbs 23:4
Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
Proverbs 23:5
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
Isaiah 55:2
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
John 17:3
This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
Romans 6:21
What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Romans 8:13
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 John 5:11
The testimony is this: that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
1 John 5:12
He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life.
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Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
Proverbs 16:16
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Proverbs 21:6
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown.
Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.
Ecclesiastes 2:8
I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments of all sorts.
Ecclesiastes 2:9
So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 3:9
What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.
Matthew 13:45
“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,
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Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”
Job 13:16
This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him.
Job 15:34
For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
Job 20:5
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
Job 31:3
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
Isaiah 33:14
The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
Isaiah 33:15
He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
Ezekiel 28:18
By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you. It has devoured you. I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.
Matthew 23:14
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
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Micah 6:6
How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
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Micah 6:7
Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
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Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, isn’t it from Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
John 6:27
Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
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Job 22:2
“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
Malachi 3:14
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
Hebrews 11:24
By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,
Hebrews 11:26
considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
James 1:9
Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
James 1:10
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
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Matthew 4:8
Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
Matthew 4:9
He said to him, “I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.”
Matthew 4:10
Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”
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Matthew 6:25
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Matthew 6:31
“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’
Matthew 6:32
For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
Matthew 6:33
But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
Matthew 6:34
Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.
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Matthew 16:21
From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
Mark 8:1
In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself and said to them,
Mark 8:8
They ate and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
Mark 8:12
He sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.”
Mark 8:27
Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that I am?”
Mark 8:30
He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.
Mark 8:31
He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Mark 8:33
But he, turning around and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.”
Mark 9:12
He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?
Mark 9:30
They went out from there and passed through Galilee. He didn’t want anyone to know it,
Mark 9:31
for he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, “The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again.”
Luke 9:22
saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”
Luke 9:26
For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.
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Ecclesiastes 3:6
a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
Matthew 19:28
Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Matthew 19:29
Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
Mark 10:21
Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”
Mark 10:22
But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.
Mark 10:28
Peter began to tell him, “Behold, we have left all and have followed you.”
Mark 10:29
Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,
Mark 10:30
but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
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Mark 1:27
They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!”
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Mark 9:34
But they were silent, for they had disputed with one another on the way about who was the greatest.
Mark 10:42
Jesus summoned them and said to them, “You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
Mark 10:43
But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.
Mark 10:44
Whoever of you wants to become first among you shall be bondservant of all.
Mark 10:45
For the Son of Man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
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Mark 15:21
They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them that he might bear his cross.
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Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
Job 21:30
that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out to the day of wrath?
Job 21:31
Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done?
Job 21:32
Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.
Psalms 49:9
that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
Psalms 49:10
For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Psalms 49:11
Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.
Psalms 49:12
But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.
Luke 12:19
I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’
Luke 12:21
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
Luke 16:19
“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
Luke 16:23
In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
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Psalms 27:4
One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Psalms 73:25
Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
Luke 10:42
but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
Luke 18:22
When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”
1 Corinthians 13:3
If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.
Colossians 2:10
and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.
Colossians 2:11
In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,
Colossians 2:12
having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Colossians 2:13
You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
Colossians 2:14
wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.
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John 19:17
He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull”, which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”,
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Jeremiah 4:19
My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Luke 21:19
“By your endurance you will win your lives.
Acts 1:18
Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness; and falling headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines gushed out.
Acts 1:25
to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”
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Jonah 1:5
Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.
Acts 27:19
On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.
Acts 27:21
When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them and said, “Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete and have gotten this injury and loss.
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Romans 13:1
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
James 1:21
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
James 5:20
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 1:9
receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
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Colossians 2:15
Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Colossians 2:16
Let no one therefore judge you in eating or drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
Colossians 2:17
which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
Colossians 2:18
Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Colossians 2:19
and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.
Hebrews 6:6
and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
James 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
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Luke 16:20
A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,
Luke 16:21
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
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