And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, And if I [am] a man of God, fire shall come down out of heaven, and devour you and your fifty [men]. And fire came down out of heaven, and devoured him and the fifty.

And the king sent a second time to him another captain of fifty, and his fifty. And the captain of fifty spoke to him, and said, O man of God, thus says the king, Come down quickly.

And Saul said, I have sinned: turn, son David, for I will not hurt you, because my life was precious in your eyes; and today I have been foolish and have erred exceedingly.

And behold, as your life has been precious this very day in my eyes, so let my life be precious before the Lord, and may He protect me, and deliver me out of all affliction.

or the price for the redemption of his soul, though he labor forever,

He shall redeem their souls from oppression and injustice, and their name [shall be] precious before Him.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.

For the value of a harlot is as much as of one loaf of bread, and a woman hunts for the precious souls of men.

For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of Me shall find it.

For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give [as] an exchange for his soul?

But I count myself as nothing; nor do I regard my life as valuable to myself, so that I may complete my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear solemn testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.