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Lucas 14:33
In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples. (niv)
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Lucas 14:26
“ If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters— yes, even their own life— such a person cannot be my disciple. (niv)
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Mateo 16:26
What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? (niv)
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Proverbios 13:8
A person’s riches may ransom their life, but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes. (niv)
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Mateo 13:44-46
“ The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.“ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls.When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it. (niv)
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Gálatas 2:15-16
“ We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentilesknow that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified. (niv)
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Lucas 17:31-33
On that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.Remember Lot’s wife!Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it. (niv)
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Génesis 19:17
As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said,“ Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!” (niv)
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Génesis 19:26
But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. (niv)
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Gálatas 5:2-5
Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. (niv)
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Hechos 27:18-19
We took such a violent battering from the storm that the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard.On the third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands. (niv)
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Hechos 27:38
When they had eaten as much as they wanted, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea. (niv)
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Filipenses 3:4-6
though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more:circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. (niv)
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Filipenses 3:8-10
What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christand be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ— the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.I want to know Christ— yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, (niv)
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Lucas 16:8
“ The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light. (niv)
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Job 2:4
“ Skin for skin!” Satan replied.“ A man will give all he has for his own life. (niv)
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Proverbios 23:23
Buy the truth and do not sell it— wisdom, instruction and insight as well. (niv)