Bible Verses About Paradox

There are those with nothing who pretend they are rich, also those with great wealth who pretend they are poor.

Whoever finds his own life will lose it, but the person who loses his life for my sake will find it.

whoever wants to save his own life will destroy it, but whoever destroys his life for my sake will find it.

For whoever wants to save his own life will destroy it, but whoever destroys his life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News will save it.

Whoever aims at preserving his own life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will stay alive.

He who loves his life loses it, but he who hates his life in this world will keep it safe right on into eternal life!

Let no one fool himself. If someone among you thinks he is wise (by this world’s standards), let him become “foolish,” so that he may become really wise.

On the contrary, we try to commend ourselves in every way as workers for God by continually enduring troubles, hardships, calamities,

through being honored and dishonored, praised and blamed, considered deceptive and sincere,

unknown and famous. And we commend ourselves as God’s workers headed for death, yet look! we’re alive! as punished, yet not killed;

as having reason to be sad, yet always filled with joy; as poor, yet making many people rich; as having nothing, yet having everything!

was snatched into Gan-‘Eden and heard things that cannot be put into words, things unlawful for a human being to utter.

Yes, I am well pleased with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions and difficulties endured on behalf of the Messiah; for it is when I am weak that I am strong.

I have behaved like a fool, but you forced me to do it — you who should have been commending me. For I am in no way inferior to the “super-emissaries,” even if I am nothing.

so that the Messiah may live in your hearts through your trusting. Also I pray that you will be rooted and founded in love,

so that you, with all God’s people, will be given strength to grasp the breadth, length, height and depth of the Messiah’s love,

yes, to know it, even though it is beyond all knowing, so that you will be filled with all the fullness of God.

But the things that used to be advantages for me, I have, because of the Messiah, come to consider a disadvantage.

The wall was made of diamond and the city of pure gold resembling pure glass.

The twelve gates were twelve pearls, with each gate made of a single pearl. The city’s main street was pure gold, transparent as glass.