26 Bible Verses about Value

is not a man of much greater consequence than a sheep? how lawful then is it to do good offices on the sabbath-day?

lay aside then your fears, ye are of a superior rank to those animals.

and meeting with one of great value, presently sells all that he has to make the purchase.

for you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

many that had practis'd magical arts, brought the books and publickly threw them into the fire: the value by computation amounting to fifty thousand pieces of silver.

things that little affect me, nor is life so much my concern, as to finish my course, and the charge I receiv'd from the Lord Jesus, to attest the declaration of the divine favour.

but he said to them, you pretend to piety before men, which, however they may admire, is an abomination to God, who knows your real temper.

consider the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor lay up any stores; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much greater value than they?

nay, the very hairs of your head can't fall without being number'd: be not then afraid; there is no comparison between you and sparrows.

exercise yourself in piety: for those exercises which relate only to the body are of little consequence, but piety is of absolute use, having the promises both of the present life, and of the life that is to come.

esteeming the sufferings of Israel greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he had an eye to the reward.

and there came a certain poor widow, who threw in two mites, to the value of a farthing.

consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap: nor have cellar or barn: are not you of much greater value than the fowls?

that your faith being put to a more advantageous proof, than that of gold, which loses by the essay, may redound to your praise and highest honour at the appearance of Jesus Christ:

said, why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, to be given to the poor?

nay I think them disadvantages when put in competition with the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whose sake I abandon all these things, and count them as straw, that I may gain Christ,

by which indeed they make a pretence to wisdom, by a worship of their own devising, by an air of humility, and self-denial, and a disregard to the gratifications of sense.

circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, in comparison of obeying the divine commands.

for to us was the good promise made, as well as to them: but the word address'd to them was not effectually receiv'd with faith by those that heard it.

take notice, 'tis I Paul declare it to you, that if you are circumcised, Christ shall be of no advantage to you.

it is the action of the mind that vivifies, that of the body profits nothing: the words that I have delivered to you, spiritually understood, give life.

for if they only who are of the law have right of possession, faith is made useless, and the promise becomes of no effect.

who gave himself for the redemption of all mankind: this is what was to be promulg'd in due time:

Do nothing out of a spirit of contention, or for vain-glory, but modestly look upon others as if they were better than yourselves.