And yet, even if, when your faith is offered as a sacrifice to God, my life-blood must be poured out in addition, still I shall rejoice and share the joy of you all;

For it was a great joy to me, when some Brothers came and testified to your fidelity to the Truth--I know that your own life is guided by the Truth.

I have told you all this so that my own joy may be yours, and that your joy may be complete.

It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens to him, is filled with joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. This joy I have felt to the full.

All joy be yours at all times in your union with the Lord. Again I repeat--All joy be yours.

It was a great joy to me to find the lives of some of your children guided by the Truth, in obedience to the command that we received from the Father.

He who loves his life loses it; while he who hates his life in the present world shall preserve it for Immortal Life.

No one who has received the new Life from God lives sinfully, because the very nature of God dwells within him; and he cannot live in sin, because he has received the new Life from God.

We know that no one who has received the new Life from God lives in sin. No, he who has received the new Life from God keeps the thought of God in his heart, and then the Evil One does not touch him.

It is the Spirit that gives Life; mere flesh is of no avail. In the teaching that I have been giving you there is Spirit and there is Life.

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

What good will it do a man to gain the whole world, if he forfeits his life? or what will a man give that is of equal value with his life?

'Never shall any unhallowed thing enter it,' nor he whose life is shameful and false, but only 'those whose names have been written in the Lamb's Book of Life.'

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, and whoever, for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, will lose his life shall save it.

That which came into being in him was Life; and the Life was the Light of Man;

He who believes in the Son has Immortal Life, while he who rejects the Son will not even see that Life, but remains under 'God's displeasure.'

For, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them Life, so also the Son gives Life to whom he pleases.

In truth I tell you that he who listens to my Message and believes him who sent me, has Immortal Life, and does not come under condemnation, but has already passed out of Death into Life.

For, just as the Father has inherent Life within him, so also he has granted to the Son to have inherent Life within him;

That is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about your life here--what you can get to eat or drink; nor yet about your body-- what you can get to wear. Is not life more than food, and the body than its clothing?

He who has found his life will lose it, while he who, for my sake, has lost his life shall find it.

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, and whoever, for my sake, loses his life--that man shall save it.

And to you, who once were 'dead,' by reason of your sins and your uncircumcised nature--to you God gave Life in giving life to Christ! He pardoned all our sins!

Women received back their dead raised to life. Some were tortured on the wheel, and refused release in order that they might rise to a better life.

To the latter we are an odor which arises from death and tells of Death; to the former an odor which arises from life and tells of Life. But who is equal to such a task?

Therefore, if any one is in union with Christ, he is a new being! His old life has passed away; a new life has begun!

That Life was made visible, and we have seen it, and now bear our testimony to it, and tell you of that Immortal Life, which was with the Father and was made visible to us.

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has received the new Life from God; and every one who loves him who gave that Life loves him who has received it.

And that testimony is that God gave us Immortal Life, and that this Life is in his Son.

He who finds the Son finds Life; he who does not find the Son of God does not find Life.

Even though we were 'dead' because of our offenses, gave Life to us in giving Life to the Christ. (By God's loving-kindness you have been saved.)

I know your life, your love, faith, service, and endurance; and I know that your life of late has been better than it was at first.