"He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.

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

"And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.

"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.

Then He said to [them] all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.

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

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

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

Women received their dead raised to life again. And others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

Then [Jacob] also went in to Rachel, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with Laban still another seven years.

So Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, "The LORD has surely looked on my affliction. Now therefore, my husband will love me."

Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun [was] distressing to me, for all [is] vanity and grasping for the wind.

"If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.