Philippians 3:8
Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,
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In Context
7But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.
Cross References
1 Kings 14:10So I will send evil on the line of Jeroboam, cutting off from his family every male child, those who are shut up and those who go free in Israel; the family of Jeroboam will be brushed away like a man brushing away waste till it is all gone.
Job 20:7Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?
Isaiah 53:11... made clear his righteousness before men ... had taken their sins on himself.
Malachi 2:3See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.
Matthew 13:44The kingdom of heaven is like a secret store of wealth in a field, which a man came across and put back again; and in his joy he goes and gives all he has, to get that field.
Matthew 19:27Then Peter said to him, See, we have given up everything and have come after you; what then will we have?
Matthew Henry on Philippians 3:5-9
False Confidence Renounced. ( a. d. 62.) 4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: 5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. 7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all… Read the whole commentary →