Thematic Bible: Investments
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I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire, in order that you may become rich, and white clothing, in order that you may be clothed and the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed, and eye salve to smear on your eyes, in order that you may see.
Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give [the proceeds] to the poor--and you will have treasure in heaven--and come, follow me."
Verse Concepts
Giving, Of PossessionsFollowing Jesus ChristCommitment, to Jesus Christethics, socialChristlikenessGenerosity, Humandiscipleship, nature ofChallengesBeggarsAlms, Good DeedsHeaven, Inheritance OfInvitationsPoverty, Attitudes TowardsPoverty, Remedies ForReligionRestitutionReward, For God's PeopleRich, TheSelf Denial
{More than that}, even consider all [things] to be loss because of the surpassing greatness of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I have suffered the loss of all [things], and consider [them] dung, in order that I may gain Christ
storing up for themselves a good foundation for the future, in order that they may take hold of [what is] truly life.
"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, that a man found [and] concealed, and in his joy he goes and sells everything that he has and buys that field.
but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves do not break in or steal.
For life is more than food, and the body [more than] clothing.
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- Affluence
- Age To Come
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- Alms, Good Deeds
- Alternatives To Money
- Bad Language
- Beggars
- Being Lost
- Belonging To Heaven
- Benevolence
- Buying God's Gift
- Buying and selling
- Certainty
- Challenges
- Christlikeness
- Clarity
- Commitment, to Jesus Christ
- Consecration, Examples Of
- Covering
- Crude Language
- Death To Self
- Defecation
- Excellence
- Figurative Fields
- Finance
- Finding
- Finding Things
- Following Jesus Christ
- Gain Through Loss
- Generosity, Human
- Giving Money To The Church
- Giving To The Poor
- Giving, Of Oneself
- Giving, Of Possessions
- Goals
- Gold
- Gold Transferred
- Heaven, Inheritance Of
- Hidden Things
- Hoarding
- Holy Spirit, Types Of
- Insects
- Instruction About Clothes
- Instructions About Following
- Invitations
- Joy, Of The Church
- Kingdom Of God, Entry Into
- Knowing Christ Personally
- Knowledge
- Life Purpose
- Living Souls
- Losing Someone
- Medicine
- Metals
- Money, Attitudes To
- Moths
- Nakedness
- Not Worrying
- Parables Of Christ
- People Made Perfect
- Personal Consecration
- Poverty, Attitudes Towards
- Poverty, Remedies For
- Provision For The Body
- Refining
- Religion
- Renunciation
- Restitution
- Reward, For God's People
- Rich Apparel
- Rich, The
- Riches, Spiritual
- Rubbish
- Seeking Life
- Self Denial
- Self Sacrifice
- Spiritual Foundations
- Spiritual Investment
- Spiritual Treasures
- Stewardship
- Storing
- Storing Other Things
- Storing Treasure On Earth
- Taking Care Of Your Body
- The Body
- The Faculty Of Sight
- Thrift
- Treasure
- Treasure In Heaven
- Value
- Values
- White And Bright Clothes
- White Cloths
- Wise Councel
- Worth
- Accomplishment
- Accomplishments
- Advisers
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- Dung and manure
- Ethics, social
- Importance
- Losing a loved one
- Poop
- Possessions
- Sales