Value

Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, — read the full passage →

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field. — read the full passage →

However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ. — read the full passage →

Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

“Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God. — read the full passage →

“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will, — read the full passage →

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Or what woman, if she had ten drachmacoins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it? — read the full passage →

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; — read the full passage →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much. — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

Yes most certainly, 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 count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.”

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? — read the full passage →

who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. — read the full passage →

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. — read the full passage →

But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together. — read the full passage →

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? — read the full passage →

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire, — read the full passage →

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →