Esther 4:13
And Mordecai bade to answer Esther: Imagine not in thy heart that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.
Proverbs 24:10-12
If thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is small.
Matthew 16:24-25
Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any one desires to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
John 12:25
He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.
Philippians 2:30
because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me.
Hebrews 12:3
For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.