Ecclesiastes 3:6

There is a time to seek and to lose, to keep and to cast away. Gaining and letting go each have their appointed place in life.

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• Phil 3:7–8But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
• Luke 9:24–25For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.
• Mark 8:35–37For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.
• Matt 16:25–26For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
• Matt 19:29And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
• Heb 10:34–35You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.
• Mark 10:28–30Peter began to say to Him, “Look, we have left everything and followed You.”
• Ps 112:9He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.
• Eccl 11:1Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.
• 2 Kgs 5:26But Elisha questioned him, “Did not my spirit go with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to accept money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants and maidservants?
• Acts 27:19On the third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.
• Deut 8:17–18You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
• Gen 31:18and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.
• Exod 12:35–36Furthermore, the Israelites acted on Moses’ word and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold, and for clothing.
• Gen 30:30–43Indeed, you had very little before my arrival, but now your wealth has increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I set foot. But now, when may I also provide for my own household?”
• 2 Kgs 7:15And they tracked them as far as the Jordan, and indeed, the whole way was littered with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in haste. So the scouts returned and told the king.
• Jonah 1:5The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
• Isa 2:20In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
• Acts 27:38After the men had eaten their fill, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.
• 2 Kgs 8:9So Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift of forty camel loads of every good thing from Damascus. And he went in and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”

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