And I write this to you in order that when I come I may not receive pain from those who ought to give me joy, confident as I am as to all of you that my joy is the joy of you all.

But the angel said to them, "Put away all fear; for I am bringing you good news of great joy--joy for all the People.

"These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy in you, and that your joy may become perfect.

For this reason we feel comforted; and--in addition to this our comfort--we have been filled with all the deeper joy at Titus's joy, because his spirit has been set at rest by you all.

Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only God's Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us.

It is an intense joy to me to have found some of your children living true Christian lives, in obedience to the command which we have received from the Father.

He who holds his life dear, is destroying it; and he who makes his life of no account in this world shall keep it to the Life of the Ages.

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

Why, what benefit will it be to a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give to buy back his life?

To save your life is to lose it, and to lose your life for my sake is to save it.

For whoever is bent on securing his life will lose it, but he who loses his life for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, will secure it.

but will receive a hundred times as much now in this present life--houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, lands--and persecution with them--and in the coming age the Life of the Ages.

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

Any man who makes it his object to keep his own life safe, will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

who shall not certainly receive many times as much in this life, and in the age that is coming the Life of the Ages."

and I will say to my life, "'Life, you have ample possessions laid up for many years to come: take your ease, eat, drink, enjoy yourself.'

In Him was Life, and that Life was the Light of men.

He who believes in the Son has the Life of the Ages; he who disobeys the Son will not enter into Life, but God's anger remains upon him.

For just as the Father awakens the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom He wills.

"In most solemn truth I tell you that he who listens to my teaching and believes Him who sent me, has the Life of the Ages, and does not come under judgement, but has passed over out of death into Life.

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

For this is my Father's will, that every one who fixes his gaze on the Son of God and believes in Him should have the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him to life on the last day."

It is the spirit which gives Life. The flesh confers no benefit whatever. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and are Life.

to the last-named an odor of death predictive of death, and to the others an odor of life predictive of life. And for such service as this who is competent?

For now life is for us life indeed, since you are standing fast in the Lord.

Train yourself in godliness. Exercise for the body is not useless, but godliness is useful in every respect, possessing, as it does, the promise of Life now and of the Life which is soon coming.

storing up for themselves that which shall be a solid foundation for the future, that they may lay hold of the Life which is life indeed.

Married women, in the same way, be submissive to your husbands, so that even if some of them disbelieve the Message, they may, apart from the Message, be won over by the daily life of their wives, after watching your daily life--

the Life was manifested, and we have seen and bear witness, and we declare unto you the Life of the Ages which was with the Father and was manifested to us--

And that testimony is to the effect that God has given us the Life of the Ages, and that this Life is in His Son.

He who has the Son has the Life: he who has not the Son of God has not the Life.