It is a difficult thing for someone to die for a righteous person. It may even be that someone might dare to die for a good person.

The greatest love you can have for your friends is to give your life for them.

because he risked his life and nearly died for the sake of the work of Christ, in order to give me the help that you yourselves could not give.

This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for others!

and taken to Joshua. Joshua then called all the men of Israel to him and ordered the officers who had gone with him to come and put their feet on the necks of the kings. They did so.

You make my enemies run from me; I destroy those who hate me.

And so the LORD says, "I am planning to bring disaster on you, and you will not be able to escape it. You are going to find yourselves in trouble, and then you will not walk so proudly any more.

He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

So the churches were made stronger in the faith and grew in numbers every day.

Each of you should go on living according to the Lord's gift to you, and as you were when God called you. This is the rule I teach in all the churches.

Now, concerning what you wrote about the money to be raised to help God's people in Judea. You must do what I told the churches in Galatia to do.

Our friends, the same things happened to you that happened to the churches of God in Judea, to the people there who belong to Christ Jesus. You suffered the same persecutions from your own people that they suffered from the Jews,

From John to the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace be yours from God, who is, who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits in front of his throne,