Matthew 16:26
What good will it do a man to gain the whole world, if he forfeits his life? or what will a man give that is of equal value with his life?
1 Peter 1:18-19
For you know that it was not by perishable things, such as silver and gold, that you were Ransomed from the aimless way of living which was handed down to you from your ancestors,
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The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
Ransom
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Ransom
Matthew 16:26
What good will it do a man to gain the whole world, if he forfeits his life? or what will a man give that is of equal value with his life?
1 Peter 1:18
For you know that it was not by perishable things, such as silver and gold, that you were Ransomed from the aimless way of living which was handed down to you from your ancestors,
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Luke 12:23
For life is more than food, and the body than its clothes.
Philippians 3:7
But all the things which I once held to be gains I have now, for the Christ's sake, come to count as loss.