Thematic Bible: Profit and loss
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Profit and loss » Profit » Godliness profitable general references to
For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Tell the righteous "Good!" For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.
Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn't your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.
Profit and loss » Profit » Sin unprofitable, general references to
They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.
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 you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
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?
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
Don't turn aside; for [then you would go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.
Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Irreparable loss suffered by the impenitent
Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.
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.
For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"
There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise. By David.
'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'
Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
Profit and loss » Loss » The wages of sin do not profit
For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.
"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
Profit and loss » Profit » Profitable things
For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
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Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Imperfect service
each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is.
If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Breach of trust
You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest. Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.
For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away.
Profit and loss » Loss, spiritual » Causes of » Sin
"Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Prodigality
Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » False foundations
But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."
Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Worldliness
For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
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