If your right eye is a hindrance to you, pluck it out and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna.

And if your right hand is a hindrance to you, cut it off and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna.

He who has found his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, I tell you, he shall not lose his reward."

It is less than any seed on earth, but when it grows up it is larger than any plant, it becomes a tree, so large that the wild birds come and roost in its branches."

for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

So he said to him, 'My man, how did you get in here without a wedding-robe?' The man was speech less.

It is like a grain of mustard-seed ??less than any seed on earth when it is sown on earth;

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

When Herod the tetrarch heard all that was going on, he was quite at a loss; for some said that John had risen from the dead,

for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it.

What profit will it be for a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

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

and the will of him who sent me is that I lose none of those who are his gift to me, but that I raise them all up on the last day.

The disciples looked at each other, at a loss to know which of them he meant.

(this was to fulfil his own word: 'I did not lose a single one of those whom thou didst give me').

Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me, unless it had been granted you from above. So you are less guilty than he who betrayed me to you."

They were all amazed and quite at a loss. "What can it mean?" they said to one another.

On hearing this the commander of the temple and the high priests were quite at a loss to know what to make of it.

Peter was quite at a loss to know the meaning of the vision he had seen; but just then, the messengers of Cornelius, who had made inquiries for the house of Simon, stood at the door

This was because Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, to avoid any loss of time in Asia; he wanted to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.

Well, the day after they came here along with me, I took my seat on the tribunal without any loss of time. I ordered the man to be brought in,

As I felt at a loss about the method of inquiry into such topics, I asked if he would go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges.

then, sailing over the Cilician and Pamphylian waters, we came to Myra in Lycia.

and coasting along it with great difficulty we reached a place called Fair Havens, not far from the town of Lasea.

"Men," said he, "I see this voyage is going to be attended with hardship and serious loss not only to the cargo and the ship but also to our own lives."

When they had gone without food for a long time, Paul stood up among them and said, "Men, you should have listened to me and spared yourselves this hardship and loss by refusing to set sail from Crete.

I now bid you cheer up. There will be no loss of life, only of the ship.

to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, as well as to all who, wherever they may be, invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord no less than ours:

Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power!

And yet you are puffed up! You ought much rather to be mourning the loss of a member! Expel the perpetrator of such a crime!

Now mere food will not bring us any nearer to God; if we abstain we do not lose anything, and if we eat we do not gain anything.

Hence, as I hold this ministry by God's mercy to me, I never lose heart in it;

Hence I never lose heart; though my outward man decays, my inner man is renewed day after day.

And for your souls I will gladly spend my all and be spent myself. Am I to be loved the less because I love you more than others?

less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ

So I beg of you not to lose heart over what I am suffering on your behalf; my sufferings are an honour to you.

For on behalf of Christ you have the favour of suffering no less than of believing in him,

But for Christ's sake I have learned to count my former gains a loss;

indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ

We beseech you, brothers, keep a check upon loafers, encourage the faint-hearted, sustain weak souls, never lose your temper with anyone;

I adjure you to preach the word; keep at it in season and out of season, refuting, checking, and exhorting men; never lose patience with them, and never give up your teaching,

See that you do not refuse to listen to His voice. For if they failed to escape, who refused to listen to their instructor upon earth, much less shall we escape, if we discard Him who speaks from heaven.

Obey your leaders, submit to them; for they are alive to the interests of your souls, as men who will have to account for their trust. Let their work be a joy to them and not a grief ??which would be a loss to yourselves.

Now, beloved, you are forewarned: mind you are not carried away by the error of the lawless and so lose your proper footing;

Watch yourselves; you must not lose what you have been working for, but gain a full reward.