But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

The reaper is already getting his wages and harvesting for eternal life, so that the sower shares the reaper's joy.

Discipline always seems for the time to be a thing of pain, not of joy; but those who are trained by it reap the fruit of it afterwards in the peace of an upright life.

So the very reason I wrote was that I might not come only to be pained by those who ought to give me joy; I relied on you all, I felt sure that my joy would be a joy for everyone of you.

I have told you this, that my joy may be within you and your joy complete.

He who loves his life loses it, and he who cares not for his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

for as the Father has life in himself, so too he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

You search the scriptures, imagining you possess eternal life in their pages ??and they do testify to me ??40 but you refuse to come to me for life.

for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it.

for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life.

for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

In him life lay, and this life was the Light for men:

He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life ??God's anger broods over him."

Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat or drink in life, nor about what you are to put on your body; surely life means more than food, surely the body means more than clothes!

He who has found his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

amassing right good treasure for themselves in the world to come, in order to secure the life which is life indeed.

every day of my life I am being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may come out within my mortal flesh.

(the Life has appeared; we saw it, we testify to it, we bring you word of that eternal Life which existed with the Father and was disclosed to us) ??3 it is of what we heard and saw that we bring you word, so that you may share our fellowship; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

And the testimony is, that God gave us life eternal and this life is in his Son.

He who possesses the Son possesses life: he who does not possess the Son does not possess life.

For I was overjoyed when some brothers arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do lead the true Life;