Quotes About Value

“I paid a high price for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.

Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,

I care very little, however, if I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you.” Nor can the head say to the feet, “I do not need you.”

On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,

and the parts we consider less honorable, we treat with greater honor. And our unpresentable parts are treated with special modesty,

whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God has composed the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,

If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

But as for the highly esteemed—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism—those leaders added nothing to me.

Take notice: I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.

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

More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ

These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.

Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.

This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance.