He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

That which was torn of animals, I did not bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

Jacob said to Joseph, "El Shaddai appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

The LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.'"

They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

The magicians tried with their secret arts to bring forth lice, but they couldn't. There were lice on man, and on animal.

The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.

if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod.

You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash; on the front of the sash it shall be.

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of the LORD, to make atonement for your souls.

They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as the LORD commanded Moses.

They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Balaam answered the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.

To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: to everyone according to those who were numbered of him shall his inheritance be given.

You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.

Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, "Cursed be the man before the LORD, who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up its gates."

It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites at Ataroth;

The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (that is, Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Lower Beth Horon.

The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)

The man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.

His friend answered, "This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. Into his hand God has delivered Midian, and all the army."

The children of Dan said to him, "Do not let your voice be heard among us, or angry men will attack you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household."

Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me. Do not let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more."

Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built.

In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho: he laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.

And Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the wadis. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals."

"But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven can't contain you; how much less this house which I have built.

Now therefore do not let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way, neither believe him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?"

"After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants and bondmaids, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's loss."

How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

that he would show you the secrets of wisdom. For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water.

How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm."

if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

How much less when you say you do not see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him.

He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.

Arrogant speech isn't fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.

Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.

a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

"Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, 'I am, and there is no other besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:'

but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come on you, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.

Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any work.

and over them three administrators, of whom Daniel was one; that these satraps might give account to them, and that the king might not suffer loss.

He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

And whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink because he is a disciple, truly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward."

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you belong to the Messiah, truly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.

This is the will of him who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

When we had sailed across the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.

With difficulty sailing along it we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.

and said to them, "Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives."

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.

Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety;

Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is wearing away, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.

I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

I have sent him all the more eagerly, therefore, so that when you see him again you may rejoice, and that I may be less anxious.

However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

More than that, I count all things to be 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 Christ

For consider him who has endured such hostility from sinners against himself, so that you do not grow weary in your souls and lose heart.

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor lose heart when you are reproved by him;

Watch yourselves, that you do not lose the things which we have accomplished, but that you receive a full reward.