Then the sailors were full of fear, every man crying to his god; and the goods in the ship were dropped out into the sea to make the weight less. But Jonah had gone down into the inmost part of the ship where he was stretched out in a deep sleep.

For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.

But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.

For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,

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And let him who is on the house-top not go down, or go in, to take anything out of his house:

Is not life more than food, and the body than its clothing?

But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.