Luke 9:25

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

“Come,” say they, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”

Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”

Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren’t raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?

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

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.

for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’ ”

This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.

and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”

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?

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.

to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—

Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void or adds to it.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,