"I have told you these things, that the joy which I have had may remain in you and that your joy may be complete.

For whoever wants to save his higher life will have to give up the lower life, and whoever gives up his lower life for my sake will find the higher life.

Anybody who gains his lower life will lose the higher life, and anybody who loses his lower life for my sake will gain the higher life.

For whoever wants to save his higher life, will have to give up the lower life, and whoever gives up his lower life for me and for the good news, will save the higher life.

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.

in this way amassing for themselves the riches that forever endure in the life to come, so that at last they may grasp the life that is life indeed.

Whoever loves his lower life will lose the higher, but whoever hates his lower life in this world preserves the higher for eternal life.

and that life has been unveiled to us, and we have seen it and now testify to it and we now announce it to you, yea, the eternal life that was with the Father and has been unveiled to us.

And this testimony is that God has given us eternal life, and this life is given through union with His Son.

Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son does not have life.

So I tell you, stop worrying about your life, as to what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, as to what you will have to wear. Is not life worth more than food and the body worth more than clothes?

For what benefit will it be to a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his higher life? What price would a man pay to buy back his life?

who will not receive now in this life a hundred times as much in houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, but along with them persecution, and in the world to come eternal life.

It was by Him that life began to exist, and that life was the light of mankind.

Whoever trusts in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever refuses to trust in the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God continues to remain on him.

"I most solemnly say to you, whoever listens to me and believes Him who has sent me possesses eternal life, and will never come under condemnation, but has already passed out of death into life.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.

For it is my Father's will that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the last day."

Whoever continues to eat my flesh and drink my blood already possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day.

The Spirit is what gives life; the flesh does not help at all. The truths that I have told you are spirit and life.

to see you again, that I may feel the fullest joy

Yes, I have felt great joy and encouragement over your love, because the hearts of God's people have been refreshed by you, my brother.

but Christ as a Son set over the house of God was faithful; and we are that house, if we keep up our courage and the joy that hope inspires to the very end.

keeping our eyes on Jesus, the perfect leader and example of faith, who, instead of the joy which lay before Him, endured the cross with no regard for its shame, and since has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

Continue to obey and to be submissive to your leaders, for they are ever watching in defense of your souls, as men who will have to give account of their trust. Treat them in this way, so that they may work with joy and not with grief.

You must consider it the purest joy, my brothers, when you are involved in various trials,

Be miserable, mourn ... and weep aloud. Let your laughter be turned to grief and your joy to gloom.

You must continue to love Him, although you have never seen Him, but because you do believe in Him, although you do not now see Him, you must continue to rejoice with an unutterable and triumphant joy,

and now we write these things to you to make our joy complete.