Mark 8:36

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

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

“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?’

‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

“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.

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.

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

If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, 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.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

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.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

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

For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,

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.

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

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

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.

You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

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?

Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’ ”

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

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.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

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

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.

He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

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

Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.

Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

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

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

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”

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 I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

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

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

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

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

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

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.

But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

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.

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.

“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—

By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you. It has devoured you. I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.

But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a storm in the day of the whirlwind;

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.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”