Philippians 3:7

American Standard Version (1901)

Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

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  • Luke 14:33 : 33 So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
  • Prov 13:8 : 8 The ransom of a man's life is his riches; But the poor heareth no threatening.
  • Prov 23:23 : 23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; [Yea], wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
  • Matt 16:26 : 26 For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
  • Phil 3:8-9 : 8 Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ, 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, [even] that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith: 10 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;
  • Gal 2:15-16 : 15 We being Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
  • Gal 5:2-5 : 2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. 3 Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
  • Phil 3:4-6 : 4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 6 as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
  • Matt 13:44-46 : 44 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in the field; which a man found, and hid; and in his joy he goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. 45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a merchant seeking goodly pearls: 46 and having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 And his lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely: for the sons of this world are for their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.
  • Luke 17:31-33 : 31 In that day, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and let him that is in the field likewise not return back. 32 Remember Lot's wife. 33 Whosoever shall seek to gain his life shall lose it: but whosoever shall lose [his life] shall preserve it.
  • Acts 27:18-19 : 18 And as we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the [the freight] overboard; 19 and the third day they cast out with their own hands the tackling of the ship.
  • Gen 19:17 : 17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
  • Gen 19:26 : 26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
  • Job 2:4 : 4 And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Phil 3:8-14
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    8Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ,

    9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, [even] that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:

    10that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;

    11if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.

    12Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.

    13Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing [I do], forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

    14I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

  • Phil 3:3-6
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    3for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:

    4though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

    5circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

    6as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

  • Phil 1:20-23
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    20according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

    21For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

    22But if to live in the flesh,--[ if] this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not.

    23But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:

  • Gal 1:13-14
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    13For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and made havoc of it:

    14and I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of mine own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

  • Gal 6:14
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    14But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

  • Rom 15:17
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    17I have therefore my glorifying in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

  • 1 Cor 9:19-23
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    19For though I was free from all [men], I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

    20And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

    21to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law.

    22To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

    23And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.

  • Phil 1:11-13
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    11being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

    12Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;

    13so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;

  • Gal 2:19-20
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    19For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.

    20I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

  • Phil 4:13
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    13I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

  • Luke 9:25
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    25For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?

  • Phil 1:17-18
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    17but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.

    18What then? only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.

  • Phil 2:21
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    21For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Tim 3:11
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    11persecutions, sufferings. What things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.

  • Acts 20:24
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    24But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

  • Phil 1:30
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    30having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

  • 1 Cor 6:12
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    12All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.

  • Mark 8:35-36
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    35For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's shall save it.

    36For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

  • 1 Cor 2:2
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    2For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

  • Col 1:24
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    24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

  • Rom 9:2-3
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    2that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

    3For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

  • Gal 5:2
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    2Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

  • 2 Cor 12:10
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    10Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

  • Eph 3:1
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    1For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,--