For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes 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 falleth suddenly upon them.

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

And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

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

And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.