Esther 4:13
Then Mordecai told [them] to reply to Esther: "Do not think that your life will be saved [in] the palace of the king more than all the Jews.
Proverbs 24:10-12
[If] you faint on the day of adversity, little [is] your strength.
Matthew 16:24-25
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
John 12:25
The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world preserves it for eternal life.
Philippians 2:30
because on account of the work of Christ he came near to the point of death, risking his life in order that {he might make up for your inability to serve me}.
Hebrews 12:3
For consider the one who endured such hostility by sinners against himself, so that you will not grow weary in your souls [and] give up.