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Luke 14:33
In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.
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Luke 14:26
“ If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
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Matthew 16:26
For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?
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Proverbs 13:8
The ransom of a person’s life is his wealth, but the poor person hears no threat.
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Matthew 13:44-46
“ The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.“ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls.When he found a pearl of great value, he went out and sold everything he had and bought it.
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Galatians 2:15-16
We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
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Luke 17:31-33
On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, must not come down to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back.Remember Lot’s wife!Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
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Genesis 19:17
When they had brought them outside, they said,“ Run for your lives! Don’t look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”
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Genesis 19:26
But Lot’s wife looked back longingly and was turned into a pillar of salt.
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Galatians 5:2-5
Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait expectantly for the hope of righteousness.
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Acts 27:18-19
The next day, because we were violently battered by the storm, they began throwing the cargo overboard,and on the third day they threw the ship’s gear overboard with their own hands.
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Acts 27:38
When they had eaten enough to be satisfied, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.
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Philippians 3:4-6
– though mine too are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more:I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee.In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.
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Philippians 3:8-10
More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things– indeed, I regard them as dung!– that I may gain Christ,and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness– a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death,
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Luke 16:8
The master commended the dishonest manager because he acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their contemporaries than the people of light.
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Job 2:4
But Satan answered the LORD,“ Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life!
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Proverbs 23:23
Acquire truth and do not sell it– wisdom, and discipline, and understanding.
