Life (Span)

“Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the Child’s life are now dead.”

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

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

What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

And He asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?” But they were silent.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?”

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

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.

For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.

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

Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.

The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.

Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

“Lord,” said Peter, “why can’t I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You.”

“Will you lay down your life for Me?” Jesus replied. “Truly, truly, I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But Paul went down, threw himself on the young man, and embraced him. “Do not be alarmed!” he said. “He is still alive!”

But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

“Men, I can see that our voyage will be filled with disaster and great loss, not only to ship and cargo, but to our own lives as well.”

But now I urge you to keep up your courage, because you will not experience any loss of life, but only of the ship.

“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well”?

who have risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

because he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for your deficit of service to me.

By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.