Matthew 16:26

What profit will it be if a man gains the whole world and forfeits his own soul? What will a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?

1 Peter 1:18-19

you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past,

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Summary

The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.

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Ransom

Matthew 16:26
What profit will it be if a man gains the whole world and forfeits his own soul? What will a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?
1 Peter 1:18
you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past,

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Luke 12:23
life is something more than food, and the body is something more than clothes.
Philippians 3:7
But for Christ's sake I have learned to count my former gains a loss;