Bible Verses About Paradox

There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth is abundant.

`He who found his life shall lose it, and he who lost his life for my sake shall find it.

for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake shall find it,

for whoever may will to save his life shall lose it; and whoever may lose his life for my sake and for the good news' sake, he shall save it;

Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.

he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world--to life age-during shall keep it;

Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age--let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good report, as leading astray, and true;

as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and lo, we live; as chastened, and not put to death;

as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

that he was caught away to the paradise, and heard unutterable sayings, that it is not possible for man to speak.

wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses--for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

I have become a fool--boasting; ye--ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles--even if I am nothing.

that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,

that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,

to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled--to all the fulness of God;

But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;

and the building of its wall was jasper, and the city is pure gold--like to pure glass;

And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, each several one of the gates was of one pearl; and the broad-place of the city is pure gold--as transparent glass.