Luke 9:24
New Living Translation
24 If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.
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Luke 17:33
New Living Translation
33 If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it.
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John 12:25
New Living Translation
25 Those who love their life in this world will lose it. Those who care nothing for their life in this world will keep it for eternity.
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Revelation 2:10
New Living Translation
10 Don’t be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The devil will throw some of you into prison to test you. You will suffer for ten days. But if you remain faithful even when facing death, I will give you the crown of life.
Acts 20:23-24
New Living Translation
23 except that the Holy Spirit tells me in city after city that jail and suffering lie ahead. 24 But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.
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Revelation 12:11
New Living Translation
11 And they have defeated him by the blood of the Lamb
and by their testimony.
And they did not love their lives so much
that they were afraid to die.
Hebrews 11:35
New Living Translation
35 Women received their loved ones back again from death.
But others were tortured, refusing to turn from God in order to be set free. They placed their hope in a better life after the resurrection.
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