"You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt lose its savor, in what way shall it be salted? It is henceforth good for nothing but to be thrown out and trodden under foot of men.

And if your eye, your right eye, entices you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit.

And if your right hand entices you into sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit.

"but rather be on your way to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

"He who has saved his life shall lose it; and he who has lost his life for my sake shall find it.

"And whoever gives to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, because he is a disciple, I tell you in solemn truth, he shall not lose his reward.

In reply he said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

For he who wants to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

And no one ever pours new wine into old wine-skins, else the wine would burst the skins, and both wine and skins would be lost. New wine is poured into fresh wine-skins.

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever, for my sake and the gospel's, loses his life will save it.

For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own life?

For whoever gives you even a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, in solemn truth I tell you, that he shall certainly not lose his reward.

salt is excellent, but if the salt has lost its savor, what will you use to restore its saltness? Then have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."

Then they came to him and woke him, saying, "Master, Master, we are lost!" Then he awoke, and rebuked the winds and the raging of the sea. They ceased, and there was a calm.

"For whoever wills to save his life shall lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake shall save it.

"For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

"Salt is good, but if even the salt have lost its flavor, with what shall it be seasoned?

"Which one of you men, if he has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?

"When he gets home he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying, "Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.'

"And when she has found it, she calls together her woman friends and neighbors and say, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.'

"'for this son of mine was dead and is alive again??e was lost and is found.'

"'But it was fitting that we should make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive; he was lost and is found.'"

"Whoever seeks to keep his life shall lose it; but whoever loses it shall preserve it.

He also taught them by a parable how they ought always to pray and never to lose heart.

"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save the lost."

"And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the last day.

and there was much disputing about him among the crowd. Some would say, "He is a good man." Others. "No! he is misleading the people." "While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

(In order that the word which he had spoken might be fulfilled, "Of those whom thou hast given me I have not lost one.")

"Sirs," he said to them, "I perceive that the voyage will be attended with injury and serious loss, not only to the cargo and to the ship, but also to our own lives."

When for a long time they had been without food, Paul stood among them and said: "Men, you ought to have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and so have spared yourselves this injury and loss.

"But now take courage. There will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship,

Now if their stumbling enriches the world, and their loss enriches the Gentiles, how much more must their fulness do!

If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as it were through the flames.

Now food does not bring us nearness to God. Neither if we eat do we gain any advantage, nor if we eat not, do we lose any.

So he is lost, this weak man, lost by your "knowledge." this brother for whom Christ died.

Indeed that which once was glorious has lost its glory, because of the glory which surpasses it.

So then, as I have this ministry because of God's mercy to me, I do not lose heart.

For this reason, as I have said, I do not lose courage, but even though my outward man is wasting away, my inward man is being renewed, day by day.

So I beg you not to lose heart over my tribulations in your behalf; they are your glory.

But what was once gain to me, that I have counted loss for Christ.

In very truth I count all things but loss compared to the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and esteem them but refuse that I may gain Christ,

And, brothers, we urge you to admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, lose patience with none.

For you were straying like lost sheep, but you are now returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

They have forsaken the right way; they have lost their way, and followed the road of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing.

Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have wrought, but that you receive a full reward.