Philippians 3:7 Cross References

Philippians 3:7

7: I once thought all these things were so very important, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done.

And how do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul in the process? Is anything worth more than your soul?

"If you want to be my follower you must love me more than your own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters--yes, more than your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple.

"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in a field. In his excitement, he hid it again and sold everything he owned to get enough money to buy the field--and to get the treasure, too!
"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a pearl merchant on the lookout for choice pearls.
When he discovered a pearl of great value, he sold everything he owned and bought it!

Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the priceless gain of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I may have Christ
and become one with him. I no longer count on my own goodness or my ability to obey God's law, but I trust Christ to save me. For God's way of making us right with himself depends on faith.
As a result, I can really know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I can learn what it means to suffer with him, sharing in his death,

You and I are Jews by birth, not 'sinners' like the Gentiles.
And yet we Jewish Christians know that we become right with God, not by doing what the law commands, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be accepted by God because of our faith in Christ--and not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be saved by obeying the law."

On that day a person outside the house must not go into the house to pack. A person in the field must not return to town.
Remember what happened to Lot's wife!
Whoever clings to this life will lose it, and whoever loses this life will save it.

Get the truth and don't ever sell it; also get wisdom, discipline, and discernment.

But Lot's wife looked back as she was following along behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Listen! I, Paul, tell you this: If you are counting on circumcision to make you right with God, then Christ cannot help you.
I'll say it again. If you are trying to find favor with God by being circumcised, you must obey all of the regulations in the whole law of Moses.
For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God's grace.
But we who live by the Spirit eagerly wait to receive everything promised to us who are right with God through faith.

"Run for your lives!" the angels warned. "Do not stop anywhere in the valley. And don't look back! Escape to the mountains, or you will die."

Yet I could have confidence in myself if anyone could. If others have reason for confidence in their own efforts, I have even more!
For I was circumcised when I was eight days old, having been born into a pure-blooded Jewish family that is a branch of the tribe of Benjamin. So I am a real Jew if there ever was one! What's more, I was a member of the Pharisees, who demand the strictest obedience to the Jewish law.
And zealous? Yes, in fact, I harshly persecuted the church. And I obeyed the Jewish law so carefully that I was never accused of any fault.

"The rich man had to admire the dishonest rascal for being so shrewd. And it is true that the citizens of this world are more shrewd than the godly are.

The next day, as gale-force winds continued to batter the ship, the crew began throwing the cargo overboard.
The following day they even threw out the ship's equipment and anything else they could lay their hands on.

After eating, the crew lightened the ship further by throwing the cargo of wheat overboard.

Satan replied to the LORD, "Skin for skin--he blesses you only because you bless him. A man will give up everything he has to save his life.

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