Bible Verses About Paradox

One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

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

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

Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.

Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;

through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine;

as unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;

sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

was caught up to Paradise. The things he heard were too sacred for words, things that man is not permitted to tell.

That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,

will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth

of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.

The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass.

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, with each gate consisting of a single pearl. The main street of the city was pure gold, as clear as glass.