²¹ “If you want to be perfect,”^[a] Jesus said to him, “go, sell your belongings and give to the poor,^(A) and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

⁷ But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ.

²⁶ For he considered the reproach because of the Messiah to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, since his attention was on the reward.^(A)