Bible verses about "profit" | Sawyer

Mark 8:36

36 For what will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his life?

Matthew 6:24

24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the first, and love the other, or he will adhere to the first, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.

Acts 4:34

34 For no one among them was needy; for those who possessed lands or houses sold and brought the prices of the things sold,

James 1:27

27 Pure religion and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.

Matthew 7:21-23

21 (5:13) Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that does the will of my Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name performed many mighty works? 23 and then will I confess to them, I never knew you; depart from me you that commit wickedness.

2 Corinthians 9:6

6 (2:5) And [consider] this, He that sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly, and he that sows liberally shall reap also liberally.

1 Timothy 6:10

10 For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Matthew 16:26

26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his life? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his life?

Matthew 6:19-21

19 (5:9) Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where a moth and corrosion destroy, and where thieves dig through and steal. 20 But lay up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither a moth nor corrosion destroys, and where thieves dig not through nor steal; 21 for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Acts 20:35

35 I have showed you all things, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

1 Timothy 6:17-19

17 (2:14) Charge the rich in the present life not to be high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God who gives us all things richly to enjoy, 18 to perform good works, to be rich in good works, to be liberal, benevolent, 19 treasuring up for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold on the true life.

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