For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

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.

Then Paul answered, What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Yes, and if I am being poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.

because for the work of Christ he came close to death, not regarding his life, to supply what was lacking in your service toward me.

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so persistently harasses us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

For consider Him who endured such opposition from sinners against Himself, that you not become weary and faint in your souls.

that the rejoicing of the wicked is near its end, and the mirth of the hypocrite is but for a moment?

Is it not destruction for the wicked, and calamity for the workers of iniquity?

How long will you assail a man? You shall be slain, all of you, like a bowing wall and a tottering fence.

For man also does not know his time; as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,

and did not realize until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.

And the Spirit of Jehovah rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck thirty of their men, took their apparel, and gave the changes of clothing to those who had declared the riddle; thus his anger burned. And he went up to his father's house.

And he struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and struck a thousand men with it.

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

And being found comprised as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

having disarmed rulers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

and set free those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.