Job 2:4

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Job 2:4

And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

All that

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All that

For this reason I charge you not to be over-anxious about your lives, inquiring what you are to eat or what you are to drink, nor yet about your bodies, inquiring what clothes you are to put on. Is not the life more precious than its food, and the body than its clothing?

Why, what benefit will it be to a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give to buy back his life?

But, as the storm was still violent, the next day they began to lighten the ship;

Nay, I even reckon all things as pure loss because of the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. And for His sake I have suffered the loss of everything, and reckon it all as mere refuse, in order that I may win Christ and be found in union with Him,

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let him who is on the roof not come down and enter the house to fetch anything out of it;

but he left the linen cloth in their hands and fled without it.

For life is a greater gift than food, and the body is a greater gift than clothing.

Yet all that was gain to me--for Christ's sake I have reckoned it loss.