Job 2:4
2:4 But Satan answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life!
Psalms 49:6-8
49:6 They trust in their wealth
and boast in their great riches.
49:7 Certainly a man cannot rescue his brother;
he cannot pay God an adequate ransom price
49:8 (the ransom price for a human life is too high,
and people go to their final destiny),
Proverbs 13:8
13:8 The ransom of a person’s life is his wealth,
but the poor person hears no threat.
Matthew 6:25
Do Not Worry
6:25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t there more to life than food and more to the body than clothing?
Matthew 16:26
16:26 For what does it benefit a person
if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?
Mark 8:36-37
8:36 For what benefit is it for a person
to gain the whole world, yet
forfeit his life?
8:37 What can a person give in exchange for his life?
Philippians 3:7-9
3:7 But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.
3:8 More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things – indeed, I regard them as dung!
– that I may gain Christ,
3:9 and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness
– a righteousness from God that is in fact
based on Christ’s
faithfulness.