11 Bible Verses about Advantages
Most Relevant Verses
You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:
For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?
Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.
Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don't go away, the Counselor won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
At the end of ten days their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king's dainties.
Go to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border?
Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."
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Prayer » Of the righteous » Advantages
Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.