“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty? It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled on by men.

If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell!

Instead, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Anyone finding his life will lose it, and anyone losing his life because of Me will find it.

And whoever gives just a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple—I assure you: He will never lose his reward!”

He replied, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will find it.

[For the Son of Man has come to save the lost.]

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me and the gospel will save it.

For what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world yet lose his life?

And whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because of My name, since you belong to the Messiah—I assure you: He will never lose his reward.

Salt is good, but if the salt should lose its flavor, how can you make it salty? Have salt among yourselves and be at peace with one another.”

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will save it.

“Now, salt is good, but if salt should lose its taste, how will it be made salty?

“What man among you, who has 100 sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the 99 in the open field and go after the lost one until he finds it?

and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’

When she finds it, she calls her women friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found the silver coin I lost!’

because this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

Whoever tries to make his life secure will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”

but not a hair of your head will be lost.

This is the will of Him who sent Me: that I should lose none of those He has given Me but should raise them up on the last day.

The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

While I was with them,
I was protecting them by Your name
that You have given Me.
I guarded them and not one of them is lost,
except the son of destruction,
so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

This was to fulfill the words He had said: “I have not lost one of those You have given Me.”

Since I was at a loss in a dispute over such things, I asked him if he wished to go to Jerusalem and be tried there concerning these matters.

and told them, “Men, I can see that this voyage is headed toward damage and heavy loss, not only of the cargo and the ship but also of our lives.”

Since many were going without food, Paul stood up among them and said, “You men should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete and sustain this damage and loss.

Now I urge you to take courage, because there will be no loss of any of your lives, but only of the ship.

Therefore I urge you to take some food. For this has to do with your survival, since none of you will lose a hair from your head.”

If anyone’s work is burned up, it will be lost, but he will be saved; yet it will be like an escape through fire.

Now I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because your grief led to repentance. For you were grieved as God willed, so that you didn’t experience any loss from us.

But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ.

More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of Him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them filth, so that I may gain Christ

For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so that you won’t grow weary and lose heart.

Watch yourselves so you don’t lose what we have worked for, but that you may receive a full reward.