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Luke 14:33
So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.
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Luke 14:26
“ If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
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Matthew 16:26
For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
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Proverbs 13:8
The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.
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Matthew 13:44-46
“ Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.“ Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
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Galatians 2:15-16
“ We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
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Luke 17:31-33
In that day, he who will be on the housetop and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.Remember Lot’s wife!Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.
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Genesis 19:17
It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said,“ Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”
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Genesis 19:26
But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
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Galatians 5:2-5
Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
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Acts 27:18-19
As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.
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Acts 27:38
When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
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Philippians 3:4-6
though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
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Philippians 3:8-10
Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christand be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,
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Luke 16:8
“ His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
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Job 2:4
Satan answered Yahweh, and said,“ Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
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Proverbs 23:23
Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.