For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it.
Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.
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