"So when I saw that you would not deliver [me,] I took my life in my hands and crossed over against the people of Ammon; and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?"

"For he took his life in his hands and killed the Philistine, and the LORD brought about a great deliverance for all Israel. You saw [it] and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?"

Then David took an oath again, and said, "Your father certainly knows that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.' But truly, [as] the LORD lives and [as] your soul lives, [there is] but a step between me and death."

Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hands?

As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Are they ministers of Christ? -- I speak as a fool -- I [am] more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.

For I have become like a wineskin in smoke, [Yet] I do not forget Your statutes.

Hold me up, and I shall be safe, And I shall observe Your statutes continually.

Concerning Your testimonies, I have known of old that You have founded them forever.