Psalms 45:10

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.

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

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

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.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

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.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

But 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.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

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

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

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

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

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.

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

(The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)

This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’

For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’

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.”

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.

When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.” ’ ”

Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.

Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.

I said to her, “You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.”

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.

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.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”

The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. About three thousand men fell of the people that day.

Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, for every man was against his son and against his brother, that he may give you a blessing today.”

Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’ He didn’t acknowledge his brothers, nor did he know his own children; for they have observed your word, and keep your covenant.

Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.”

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

Ittai answered the king, and said, “As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also.”

of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.

The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon.

He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.

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.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

They have made all your planks of cypress trees from Senir. They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in Yahweh’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.

They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.

A scribe came, and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.

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.

“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.

Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.

For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”

Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”

He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.”

Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.

Boaz answered her, “I have been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father, your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn’t know before.

David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”