Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
The excellency
Bible References
The excellency
John 12:50
and I know that it is a commission of eternal life: whatever therefore I say, I deliver just as the father directed me.
John 17:3
and this is life eternal, to acknowledge thee to be the only true God, and Jesus to be the Messiah whom thou hast sent.
Philippians 3:8
nay I think them disadvantages when put in competition with the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whose sake I abandon all these things, and count them as straw, that I may gain Christ,