Philippians 3:7
But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
BSB
ASV
Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.
KJV
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
But what things were gain to me - The advantages of birth, of education, and of external conformity to the law. “I thought these to be gain - that is, to be of vast advantage in the matter of salvation. I valued myself on these things, and supposed that I was rich in all that pertained to moral character and to religion.” Perhaps, also, he refers to these things as laying the foundation of a hope of future advancement in honor and in wealth in this world.
But all these things, which I then accounted gain, which were once my confidence, my glory, and joy, those, ever since I have believed, I have accounted loss, nothing worth in comparison of Christ.
"I should have reckoned myself an unspeakable loser of, to adhere to them, I had lost my interest in Jesus Christ." He counted them loss; not only insufficient to enrich him, but what would certainly impoverish and ruin him, if he trusted to them, in opposition to Christ.
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topics/lossWhat things were gain to me, I counted loss for Christ
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The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
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Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may…
But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good…
Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You.
Through
Matthew 16:26What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
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For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?
