He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
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.”
For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
And the people kept shouting, “The voice of a god and not of a man!”
‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.
Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?
For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had.