PARADOX

Passages on this topic · 20

• Proverbs 13:7

  There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

• Matthew 10:39

  He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

• Matthew 16:25

  For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

• Mark 8:35

  For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

• Luke 17:33

  Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

• John 12:25

  He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

• 1 Corinthians 3:18

  Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

• 2 Corinthians 6:4

  but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

• 2 Corinthians 6:8

  by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

• 2 Corinthians 6:9

  as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

• 2 Corinthians 6:10

  as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

• 2 Corinthians 12:4

  how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

• 2 Corinthians 12:10

  Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

• 2 Corinthians 12:11

  I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

• Ephesians 3:17

  that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

• Ephesians 3:18

  may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,

• Ephesians 3:19

  and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

• Philippians 3:7

  However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.

• Revelation 21:18

  The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.

• Revelation 21:21

  The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.