He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life on account of Me will find it.

For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house shall perish. Yet who knows whether you have attained unto the kingdom for such a time as this?

Go, gather all the Jews who are found in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I have perished, I have perished!

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it.

Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it unto eternal life.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.

But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and through the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives unto death.