Popular Bible Verses about Loss

Now if their stumbling (their lapse, their transgression) has so enriched the world [at large], and if [Israel's] failure means such riches for the Gentiles, think what an enrichment and greater advantage will follow their full reinstatement! AMP

Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? KJV

Yes, furthermore, I count everything as loss compared to the possession of the priceless privilege (the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth, and supreme advantage) of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord and of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him [of perceiving and recognizing and understanding Him more fully and clearly]. For His sake I have lost everything and consider it all to be mere rubbish (refuse, dregs), in order that I may win (gain) Christ (the Anointed One) AMP

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, KJV

But whatever former things I had that might have been gains to me, I have come to consider as [one combined] loss for Christ's sake. AMP

But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. KJV

Why, the very fact of your having lawsuits with one another at all is a defect (a defeat, an evidence of positive moral loss for you). Why not rather let yourselves suffer wrong and be deprived of what is your due? Why not rather be cheated (defrauded and robbed)? AMP

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? KJV

Let your speech at all times be gracious (pleasant and winsome), seasoned [as it were] with salt, [so that you may never be at a loss] to know how you ought to answer anyone [who puts a question to you]. AMP

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. KJV

Yet I am glad now, not because you were pained, but because you were pained into repentance [and so turned back to God]; for you felt a grief such as God meant you to feel, so that in nothing you might suffer loss through us or harm for what we did. AMP

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. KJV

And a considerable number of the Jews had gone out to see Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. AMP

And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother. KJV

The disciples kept looking at one another, puzzled as to whom He could mean. AMP

Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake. KJV

And God said to Jonah, Do you do well to be angry for the loss of the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die! AMP

And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death. KJV

Now when the military leader of the temple area and the chief priests heard these facts, they were much perplexed and thoroughly at a loss about them, wondering into what this might grow. AMP

Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow. KJV