Neh 5:2-3, Job 2:4, Lam 1:11, 5:6, 9, Mat 16:26, Phili 3:8-9 | ESV | STEP | For there were those who said , With our sons and our daughters , we are many . So let us get grain , that we may eat and keep alive .

a[See ver. 8 above]

b ch. 2:12; 4:4; [Jer. 38:9; 52:6]

c[See ver. 10 above]

d ver. 19

k Isa. 53:11; Jer. 9:23, 24; John 17:3; 2 Pet. 1:3

l Luke 9:25 (Gk.)

m Rom. 10:5; [ver. 6]

nSee Rom. 9:30; 1 Cor. 1:30

Nehemiah 5:2-3

2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” 3 There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.”

Job 2:4

4 Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.

Lamentations 1:11

11 All her people ^agroan
as ^bthey search for bread;
they trade their ^ctreasures for ^dfood
to revive their strength.
“Look, O Lord, and see,
for I am despised.”

Lamentations 5:6

6 We have given the hand to ^eEgypt, and to ^fAssyria,
to get bread enough.

Lamentations 5:9

9 ^gWe get our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword in the wilderness.

Matthew 16:26

26 For ^hwhat will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or ⁱwhat shall a man give in return for his soul?

Philippians 3:8-9

8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of ^jthe surpassing worth of ^kknowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I ^lhave suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having ^ma righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but ⁿthat which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—