Thematic Bible: Profit and loss
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Profit and loss » Profit » Godliness profitable general references to
Train yourself in godliness. Exercise for the body is not useless, but godliness is useful in every respect, possessing, as it does, the promise of Life now and of the Life which is soon coming.
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This is a faithful saying, and on these various points I would have you insist strenuously, in order that those who have their faith fixed on God may be careful to set an example of good actions. For these are not only good in themselves, but are also useful to mankind.
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And godliness *is* gain, when associated with contentment;
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Profit and loss » Profit » Sin unprofitable, general references to
Why, what benefit will it be to a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give to buy back his life?
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Why, what benefit is it to a man to have gained the whole world, but to have lost or forfeited his own self.
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Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Irreparable loss suffered by the impenitent
And the smoke of their torment goes up until the Ages of the Ages; and the worshipers of the Wild Beast and his statue have no rest day or night, nor has any one who receives the mark of his name.
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it is impossible, I say, to keep bringing them back to a new repentance, for, to their own undoing, they are repeatedly crucifying the Son of God afresh and exposing Him to open shame.
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For you know that even afterwards, when he wished to secure the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no opportunity for undoing what he had done, though he sought the blessing earnestly with tears.
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but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, he remains for ever unabsolved: he is guilty of a sin of the Ages."
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where their worm does not die and the fire does not go out.
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And, besides all this, a vast chasm is immovably fixed between us and you, put there in order that those who desire to cross from this side to you may not be able, nor any be able to cross over from your side to us.'
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For if we wilfully persist in sin after having received the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains in reserve any other sacrifice for sins.
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Profit and loss » Loss » The wages of sin do not profit
being doomed to receive a requital for their guilt. They reckon it pleasure to feast daintily in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, while feeding luxuriously at their love-feasts, and banqueting with you.
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For if the message delivered through angels proved to be true, and every transgression and act of disobedience met with just retribution,
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For the wages paid by Sin are death; but God's free gift is the Life of the Ages bestowed upon us in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Profit and loss » Profit » Profitable things
Train yourself in godliness. Exercise for the body is not useless, but godliness is useful in every respect, possessing, as it does, the promise of Life now and of the Life which is soon coming.
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If therefore your eye, even the right eye, is a snare to you, tear it out and away with it; it is better for you that one member should be destroyed rather than that your whole body should be thrown into Gehenna.
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This is a faithful saying, and on these various points I would have you insist strenuously, in order that those who have their faith fixed on God may be careful to set an example of good actions. For these are not only good in themselves, but are also useful to mankind.
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Every Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for convincing, for correction of error, and for instruction in right doing;
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Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Imperfect service
the true character of each individual's work will become manifest. For the day of Christ will disclose it, because that day is soon to come upon us clothed in fire, and as for the quality of every one's work-- the fire is the thing which will test it.
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If any one's work is burnt up, he will suffer the loss of it; yet he will himself be rescued, but only, as it were, by passing through the fire.
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Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Breach of trust
Your duty then was to deposit my money in some bank, and so when I came I should have got back my property with interest. So take away the talent from him, and give it to the man who has the ten.'
(For to every one who has, more shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him who has nothing, even what he has shall be taken away.)
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Profit and loss » Loss, spiritual » Causes of » Sin
Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Prodigality
No long time afterwards the younger son got all together and travelled to a distant country, where he wasted his money in debauchery and excess.
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Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » False foundations
But he who has heard and not practised is like a man who has built a house upon the soft soil without a foundation, against which the torrent bursts, and immediately it collapses, and terrible is the wreck and ruin of that house."
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Profit and loss » Spiritual loss causes of » Worldliness
Why, what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
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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