"He that finds his life shall lose it; and he that loses his life for My sake shall find it.

And whosoever shall give to drink a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall in no wise lose his reward."

which, indeed, is less than all the seeds; but, when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and roost in its branches."

for whosoever wishes to save his soul shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his soul for My sake shall find it;

It is like to a grain of mustard, which when it is sown upon the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are upon the earth,

For whosoever would save his soul shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his soul for My sake and the Gospel's, shall save it.

For whosoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My name, because ye are Christ's, verily I say to you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

And there were also women, beholding from afar, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses, and Salome;

For whosoever wishes to save his soul shall lose it; but whosoever will lose his soul for My sake, the same shall save it.

"Or what woman, having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek diligently, till she finds it?

Whosoever shall seek to gain his soul shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose it, will preserve it.

And this is the will of Him Who sent Me, that of all that He hath given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.

And, sailing over the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.

saying, "Men! I perceive that the voyage is likely to be with violence and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.

And, after long abstinence from food, then Paul, standing up in the midst of them, said, "Ye ought, indeed, O men, hearkening to me, not to have set sail from Crete, and to have incurred this violence and loss.

And, as to the present things, I exhort you to be of good cheer; for there will be no loss of soul among you, but only of the ship.

Now, if their trespass is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the gentiles, how much more their fulness?

If any one's work shall be burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.

Already, therefore, it is wholly a loss to you, that ye have law-suits one with another! Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?

and those members which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;

And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?

To me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to proclaim, to the gentiles, the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of Christ;

I sent him, therefore, the more urgently, that, seeing him again, ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful.

But what things were gain to me, these I accounted loss for Christ.

Nay, more, I even account all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I suffered the loss of all things, and account them refuse, that I may gain Christ.

Let a widow be enrolled, when she has become not less than sixty years old, having been a wife of one man,

Thou madest him a little less than angels; Thou crownedst him with glory and honor; and didst set him over the works of Thy hands;

And, without any dispute, the less is blessed by the better.

Take heed to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.