Acts 4:37

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a 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

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

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.

and laid them at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

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.

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

Peter answered her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” She said, “Yes, for so much.”

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”

I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers.

Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

“But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”

Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

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

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 the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like 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.

because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.