Thematic Bible: Profit and loss
Thematic Bible
Profit and loss » Profit » Godliness profitable general references to
For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.
Verse Concepts
This is a true saying; and it is my desire that you may give certain witness about these things, so that those who have had faith in God may give attention to good works. These things are good and of profit to men;
Verse Concepts
Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.
Verse Concepts
But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit:
Verse Concepts
Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.
Verse Concepts
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.
Verse Concepts
They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.
Verse Concepts
But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you.
Verse Concepts
Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?
Verse Concepts
Profit and loss » Profit » Sin unprofitable, general references to
Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.
Verse Concepts
Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.
Verse Concepts
He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.
Verse Concepts
Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.
Verse Concepts
For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
Verse Concepts
For what profit will a man have if he gets all the world, but undergoes loss or destruction himself?
Verse Concepts
And do not go from the right way turning to those false gods in which there is no profit and no salvation, for they are false.
Verse Concepts
For there will be no future for the evil man; the light of sinners will be put out.
Verse Concepts
Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.
Verse Concepts
Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Irreparable loss suffered by the impenitent
For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.
Verse Concepts
And the smoke of their pain goes up for ever and ever; and they have no rest day and night, who give worship to the beast and his image, and have on them the mark of his name.
Verse Concepts
And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him.
Verse Concepts
For you have knowledge that even long after, when he was desiring the blessing for his heritage, he was turned away, though he made his request frequently and with weeping; because the past might not be changed.
Verse Concepts
But whoever says evil things against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but the evil he has done will be with him for ever:
Verse Concepts
There the workers of evil have come down: they have been made low, and will not be lifted up.
Verse Concepts
Where their worm is ever living and the fire is not put out.
Verse Concepts
And in addition, there is a deep division fixed between us and you, so that those who might go from here to you are not able to do so, and no one may come from you to us.
Verse Concepts
For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,
Verse Concepts
Profit and loss » Loss » The wages of sin do not profit
To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Verse Concepts
For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;
Verse Concepts
Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment;
Verse Concepts
For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Verse Concepts
Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.
Verse Concepts
This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all.
Verse Concepts
Profit and loss » Profit » Profitable things
For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.
Verse Concepts
And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.
Verse Concepts
This is a true saying; and it is my desire that you may give certain witness about these things, so that those who have had faith in God may give attention to good works. These things are good and of profit to men;
Verse Concepts
Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:
Verse Concepts
Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Imperfect service
Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work.
Verse Concepts
If the fire puts an end to any man's work, it will be his loss: but he will get salvation himself, though as by fire.
Verse Concepts
Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Breach of trust
Why, then, did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I would have got back what is mine with interest? Take away, then, his talent and give it to him who has the ten talents.
For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have more: but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
Verse Concepts
Profit and loss » Loss, spiritual » Causes of » Sin
Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.
Verse Concepts
Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Prodigality
And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.
Verse Concepts
Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » False foundations
But he who gives hearing, without doing, is like a man building a house on the earth without a base for it; and when the force of the river came against it, straight away it came down; and the destruction of that house was great.
Verse Concepts
Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Worldliness
What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?
Verse Concepts
Related Topics
- Commitment, to the world
- Exercise
- Hell, As An Experience
- Hell, As Incentive To Action
- Knowing God's Truth
- Losing One's Life
- Losing Someone
- Loss
- Money, Stewardship Of