'Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.

'He who found his life shall lose it, and he who lost his life for my sake shall find it.

and whoever may give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward.'

which less, indeed, is than all the seeds, but when it may be grown, is greatest of the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven do come and rest in its branches.'

for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake shall find it,

for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

As a grain of mustard, which, whenever it may be sown on the earth, is less than any of the seeds that are on the earth;

for whoever may will to save his life shall lose it; and whoever may lose his life for my sake and for the good news' sake, he shall save it;

for whoever may give you to drink a cup of water in my name, because ye are Christ's, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward;

And there were also women afar off beholding, among whom was also Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of James the less, and of Joses, and Salome,

for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake, he shall save it;

'Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find?

Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.

'Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;

'And this is the will of the Father who sent me, that all that He hath given to me I may not lose of it, but may raise it up in the last day;

he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world -- to life age-during shall keep it;

that the word might be fulfilled that he said -- 'Those whom Thou hast given to me, I did not lose of them even one.'

for Paul decided to sail past Ephesus, that there may not be to him a loss of time in Asia, for he hasted, if it were possible for him, on the day of the Pentecost to be at Jerusalem.

and having sailed over the sea over-against Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myria of Lycia,

and hardly passing it, we came to a certain place called 'Fair Havens,' nigh to which was the city of Lasaea.

and now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there shall be no loss of life among you -- but of the ship;

'The greater shall serve the less;'

if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.

and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.

to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news -- the untraceable riches of the Christ,

The more eagerly, therefore, I did send him, that having seen him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful;

But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;

yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,

Thou didst make him some little less than messengers, with glory and honour Thou didst crown him, and didst set him over the works of Thy hands,

and him who was made some little less than messengers we see -- Jesus -- because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death.

and apart from all controversy, the less by the better is blessed --

See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking -- much less we who do turn away from him who speaketh from heaven,

See to yourselves that ye may not lose the things that we wrought, but a full reward may receive;