Philippians 3:8

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More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things– indeed, I regard them as dung!– that I may gain Christ,

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  • John 17:3 : 3 Now this is eternal life– that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
  • 2 Pet 1:3 : 3 Believers’ Salvation and the Work of God I can pray this because his divine power has bestowed on us everything necessary for life and godliness through the rich knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence.
  • 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.
  • Phil 3:10 : 10 My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death,
  • Jer 9:23-24 : 23 The LORD says,“Wise people should not boast that they are wise. Powerful people should not boast that they are powerful. Rich people should not boast that they are rich. 24 If people want to boast, they should boast about this: They should boast that they understand and know me. They should boast that they know and understand that I, the LORD, act out of faithfulness, fairness, and justice in the earth and that I desire people to do these things,” says the LORD.
  • John 14:20 : 20 You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.
  • Isa 53:11 : 11 Having suffered, he will reflect on his work, he will be satisfied when he understands what he has done.“My servant will acquit many, for he carried their sins.
  • John 17:8 : 8 because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.
  • Phil 3:7 : 7 But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.
  • Rom 8:18 : 18 For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the coming glory that will be revealed to us.
  • 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to die, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people. 10 We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, we are dishonored! 11 To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads. 12 We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure, 13 when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world’s dirt and scum, even now.
  • Eph 4:13 : 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God– a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature.
  • Col 2:2-3 : 2 My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For God, who said“Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.
  • 2 Cor 11:23-27 : 23 Are they servants of Christ?(I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times. 24 Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one. 25 Three times I was beaten with a rod. Once I received a stoning. Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea. 26 I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers, 27 in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.
  • Eph 1:17-18 : 17 I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him, 18 – since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened– so that you can know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
  • Eph 3:8-9 : 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 9 and to enlighten everyone about God’s secret plan– the mystery that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.
  • Eph 3:18-19 : 18 you will be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you will be filled up to all the fullness of God.
  • Gal 1:16 : 16 to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,
  • 2 Tim 4:6 : 6 For I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for me to depart is at hand.
  • 1 Cor 9:10 : 10 Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.
  • 1 Cor 2:2 : 2 For I decided to be concerned about nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
  • John 20:13 : 13 They said to her,“Woman, why are you weeping?” Mary replied,“They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!”
  • John 20:28 : 28 Thomas replied to him,“My Lord and my God!”
  • John 16:3 : 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.
  • Luke 20:42-44 : 42 For David himself says in the book of Psalms,‘The Lord said to my lord,“Sit at my right hand, 43 until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’ 44 If David then calls him‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?”
  • John 14:7 : 7 If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”
  • Num 14:30 : 30 You will by no means enter into the land where I swore to settle you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
  • 1 Kgs 14:10 : 10 So I am ready to bring disaster on the dynasty of Jeroboam. I will cut off every last male belonging to Jeroboam in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. I will burn up the dynasty of Jeroboam, just as one burns manure until it is completely consumed.
  • 2 Kgs 9:37 : 37 Jezebel’s corpse will be like manure on the surface of the ground in the plot of land at Jezreel. People will not be able to even recognize her.’”
  • Job 20:7 : 7 he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say,‘Where is he?’
  • Ps 126:6 : 6 The one who weeps as he walks along, carrying his bag of seed, will certainly come in with a shout of joy, carrying his sheaves of grain.
  • Mal 2:3 : 3 I am about to discipline your children and will spread offal on your faces, the very offal produced at your festivals, and you will be carried away along with it.
  • Matt 11:25-27 : 25 Jesus’ Invitation At that time Jesus said,“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to little children. 26 Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will. 27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.
  • Matt 13:44-46 : 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. 45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. 46 When he found a pearl of great value, he went out and sold everything he had and bought it.
  • Matt 16:16-17 : 16 Simon Peter answered,“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 And Jesus answered him,“You are blessed, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven!
  • Matt 19:27-29 : 27 Then Peter said to him,“Look, we have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?” 28 Jesus said to them,“I tell you the truth: In the age when all things are renewed, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
  • Luke 1:43 : 43 And who am I that the mother of my Lord should come and visit me?
  • Luke 10:21-22 : 21 On that same occasion Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said,“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will. 22 All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”
  • 1 Pet 2:7 : 7 So you who believe see his value, but for those who do not believe, the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,
  • 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.
  • 1 John 1:3 : 3 What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us(and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).
  • 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.
  • Luke 11:20 : 20 But if I cast out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has already overtaken you.

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