Matthew 13:46

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When he found a pearl of great value, he went out and sold everything he had and bought it.

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  • Mark 10:28-31 : 28 Peter began to speak to him,“Look, we have left everything to follow you!” 29 Jesus said,“I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel 30 who will not receive in this age a hundred times as much– homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions– and in the age to come, eternal life. 31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
  • Luke 18:28-30 : 28 And Peter said,“Look, we have left everything we own to follow you! 29 Then Jesus said to them,“I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of God’s kingdom 30 who will not receive many times more in this age– and in the age to come, eternal life.”
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.
  • Eph 3:8 : 8 To me– less than the least of all the saints– this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ
  • Col 2:3 : 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
  • Prov 2:4 : 4 if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,
  • Isa 33:6 : 6 He is your constant source of stability; he abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; he gives all this to those who fear him.
  • 1 John 5:11-12 : 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.
  • 1 Cor 3:21-23 : 21 So then, no more boasting about mere mortals! For everything belongs to you, 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you, 23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
  • Gal 6:14 : 14 But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
  • Rev 21:21 : 21 And the twelve gates are twelve pearls– each one of the gates is made from just one pearl! The main street of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.
  • Matt 13:44 : 44 Parables on the Kingdom of Heaven“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.

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