"You are the salt of the world. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty again? It's good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

So if your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your body parts than to have your whole body thrown into hell.

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away from you. It is better for you to lose one of your body parts than to have your whole body go into hell."

The one who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it."

I tell all of you with certainty, whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple will never lose his reward."

Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it,

because whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the gospel will save it.

I tell all of you with certainty, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to the Messiah will never lose his reward."

because whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.

"Now, salt is good. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can its flavor be restored?

Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

He must become more important, but I must become less important."

And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything that he has given me, but should raise it to life on the last day.

This was to fulfill what he had said, "I did not lose a single one of those you gave me."

When the commander of the Temple guards and the high priests heard these words, they were utterly at a loss as to what could have happened to them.

While Peter was still at a loss to know what the vision he had seen could mean, the men sent by Cornelius asked for Simon's house and went to the gate.

There is a danger not only that our business will lose its reputation but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be brought into disrepute and that she will be robbed of her majesty that brought all Asia and the world to worship her."

We sailed along the sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia and reached Myra in Lycia.

Sailing past it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.

"Men, I see that during this voyage there will be hardship and a heavy loss not only of the cargo and ship, but also of our lives."

But now I urge you to have courage, because there will be no loss of life among you, but only loss of the ship.

So I urge you to eat something, for it will help you survive, since none of you will lose so much as a hair from his head."

If his work is burned up, he will suffer loss. However, he himself will be saved, but it will be like going through fire.

If the foot says, "Since I'm not a hand, I'm not part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body, does it?

And if the ear says, "Since I'm not an eye, I'm not part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body, does it?

and the parts of the body that we think are less honorable are treated with special honor, and we make our less attractive parts more attractive.

I will be very glad to spend my money and myself for you. Do you love me less because I love you so much?

But whatever things were assets to me, these I now consider a loss for the sake of the Messiah.

What is more, I continue to consider all these things to be a loss for the sake of what is far more valuable, knowing the Messiah Jesus, my Lord. It is because of him that I have experienced the loss of all those things. Indeed, I consider them rubbish in order to gain the Messiah

But do not include younger widows on your list. For whenever their natural desires cause them to lose their devotion to the Messiah, they want to remarry.

It is beyond dispute that the less important person is blessed by the more important person.

So don't lose your confidence, since it holds a great reward for you.

See to it that you do not ignore the one who is speaking. For if the hearers did not escape when they ignored the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we turn away from the one who is from heaven!