Luke 9:24
For whoever chooses to save his lower life will lose his higher life, but whoever gives up his lower life for my sake will save his higher life.
Luke 17:33
Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will preserve it.
John 12:25
Whoever loves his lower life will lose the higher, but whoever hates his lower life in this world preserves the higher for eternal life.
Acts 20:23-24
except that in town after town the Holy Spirit emphatically assures me that imprisonment and sufferings are awaiting me.
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.
Revelation 2:10
Do not be so afraid of what you are to suffer. See! The devil is going to throw some of you into prison to be tested there and for ten days to suffer pressing troubles. Each one of you must prove to be faithful, even if you have to die, and I will give you the crown of life.
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.
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