Matthew 6:33
But you must make his kingdom, and uprightness before him, your greatest care, and you will have all these other things besides.
Acts 20:24
But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.
Philippians 1:20
for I eagerly and confidently hope that I shall never disgrace myself but that this time as always hitherto, living or dying, I shall do Christ credit by my unfailing courage.
1 Thessalonians 3:7-9
I feel encouraged, brothers, about you, in spite of all my distress and trouble, at your faith,