Philippians 3:8

Paul counts everything as loss compared to knowing Christ, regarding all else as rubbish to gain Him. Christ is worth the loss of all things.

Cross-references · 40

• Jer 9:23–24Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
• Rom 8:18For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
• Acts 20:24But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
• Phil 3:7However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
• John 17:3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
• Phil 3:10that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;
• 2 Pet 1:3seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;
• 1 Cor 2:2For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
• Matt 19:27–29Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?”
• Col 2:2–3that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
• 1 Jn 5:20We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• Eph 3:8–9To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
• John 17:8for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
• John 14:20In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
• Eph 1:17–18that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
• Heb 3:14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
• Isa 53:11After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
• Eph 3:18–19may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,
• Matt 13:44–46“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.
• 2 Cor 4:6seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Eph 4:13until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
• 2 Pet 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
• Luke 10:21–22In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”
• 1 Cor 4:9–13For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
• 2 Cor 11:23–27Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
• Matt 16:16–17Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
• Matt 11:25–27At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
• 1 Jn 1:3that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
• John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
• John 14:7If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”
• John 20:28Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
• Ps 126:6He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.
• Luke 20:42–44David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
• 2 Tim 4:6For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
• 1 Pet 2:7For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,”
• 2 Cor 4:4in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
• Num 14:30surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
• John 20:13They told her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid him.”
• Luke 11:20But if I by God’s finger cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come to you.

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