Thematic Bible: Profit and loss
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Profit and loss » Profit » Godliness profitable general references to
for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
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The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.
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Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time."
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Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment,
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Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
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Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him.
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They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
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But this command I gave them: 'Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.'
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Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
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Profit and loss » Profit » Sin unprofitable, general references to
They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD."
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Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.
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He sings before men and says: 'I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me.
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Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
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For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
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For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?
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And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.
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for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
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All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.
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Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Irreparable loss suffered by the impenitent
therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
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And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name."
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and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.
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For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.
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but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"--
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There the evildoers lie fallen; they are thrust down, unable to rise.
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'where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.'
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And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.'
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For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
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Profit and loss » Loss » The wages of sin do not profit
For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
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suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.
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For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,
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For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment.
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"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:
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Profit and loss » Profit » Profitable things
for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
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If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
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The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.
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All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
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Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Imperfect service
each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
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If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
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Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Breach of trust
Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.
For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
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Profit and loss » Loss, spiritual » Causes of » Sin
Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you.
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Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Prodigality
Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.
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Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » False foundations
But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."
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Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Worldliness
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
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