For what you had before I came was little, and it has increased into a multitude; Jehovah has blessed you since I stepped foot here. And now, when shall I also provide for my own house?

Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and these shall be my wages.

And Laban said, Oh, that it were according to your word!

And he put three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the troughs, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should come into heat when they came to drink.

And Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban's flock.

And when the flocks were feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban's and the stronger Jacob's.

And he drove away all his livestock and all his possessions which he had gained, his acquired livestock which he had gained in Paddan, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

And the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, and they asked from the Egyptians articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing.

And Jehovah had given the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, so that they granted their requests. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand have acquired me this wealth.

But you shall remember Jehovah your God, for it is He who gives you power to acquire wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He has sworn to your fathers, as it is this day.

Then he said to him, Did not my heart go with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money and to receive clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male and female servants?

So Hazael went to meet him and took a present with him, of every good thing of Damascus, forty camel-loads; and he came and stood before him, and said, Your son Ben-Hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, Shall I remain alive of this disease?

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it.

Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Then Peter began to say to Him, Behold, we have left everything and followed You.

who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time; houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of Me will save it.

For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or suffers loss?

Cast your bread upon the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

And they went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the way was full of garments and weapons which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. So the messengers returned and reported to the king.

He has dispersed abroad, he has given to the poor; his righteousness stands forever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.

In that day a man shall throw his idols of silver and gold, which they made each man to bow down to, to the moles and to the bats;

And the sailors were afraid, and each man cried to his god. And they threw out the ship's implements into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah had gone down into the hold of the ship; and he lay down, and was sound asleep.

On the third day we threw the ship's tackle overboard with our own hands.

So when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship and threw out the wheat into the sea.

But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss because of Christ.

But no, rather, I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, that I may gain Christ

for you had compassion on me in my bonds, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, knowing, yourselves, that you have a better and an enduring possession in Heaven.

Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.