John 12:25

Greeks Seeking Jesus

²⁴ I most solemnly say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains a single grain. But if it does die, it yields a great harvest. ²⁵  Whoever loves his lower life will lose the higher, but whoever hates his lower life in this world preserves the higher for eternal life. ²⁶ If anyone serves me, he must continue to follow me, and my servant also must go wherever I go. If anyone serves me, my Father will show him honor.

Eternal Life

Everlasting Life

On Earth

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Matthew 10:39

Anybody who gains his lower life will lose the higher life, and anybody who loses his lower life for my sake will gain the higher life.

Luke 14:26

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

Mark 8:35

For whoever wants to save his higher life, will have to give up the lower life, and whoever gives up his lower life for me and for the good news, will save the higher life.

Matthew 16:25

For whoever wants to save his higher life will have to give up the lower life, and whoever gives up his lower life for my sake will find the higher life.

Luke 17:33

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

Matthew 19:29

And everyone who has given up home or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms, for my sake, will receive many times as much, and in addition will be in possession of eternal life.

Luke 9:23-24

Then He said to them all, "If anyone chooses to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put the cross on his shoulders daily, and continue to follow me.

Revelation 12:11

But they have conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the message to which they bore testimony, because they did not cling to life but courted death.

Acts 20:24

But now I count as nothing the sacrifice of my life, if only I can finish my race and render the service entrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of faithfully telling the good news of God's favor.

Acts 21:13

Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? Why, I am ready not only to be bound at Jerusalem but to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

Hebrews 11:35

Women by a resurrection received their dead again; others endured tortures, because they would not accept release, that they might rise to a better life.