Thematic Bible: Self-sacrifice
Thematic Bible
Deathless » Conditions of receiving » Self-sacrifice
The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world preserves it for eternal life.
Eternal » Conditions of receiving » Self-sacrifice
The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world preserves it for eternal life.
Everlasting » Conditions of receiving » Self-sacrifice
The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world preserves it for eternal life.
Life » Conditions of receiving » Self-sacrifice
The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world preserves it for eternal life.
Eternal life » Conditions of receiving » Self-sacrifice
The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world preserves it for eternal life.
Paul » Characteristics of » Self-sacrifice
Five times I received at the hands of the Jews forty [lashes] less one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked. A day and a night I have spent in the deep water. [I have been] on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from [my own] people, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers because of false brothers, read more.
with toil and hardship, often in sleepless nights, with hunger and thirst, often going hungry, in cold and poorly clothed. Apart from these external things, [there is] the pressure on me every day of the anxiety about all the churches. Who is weak, and [I am] not weak? Who is caused to sin, and I do not burn [with indignation]? If it is necessary to boast, I will boast [about] {the things related to my weakness}. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed {forever}, knows that I am not lying. In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to take me into custody, and I was lowered through a window through the wall in a rope-basket, and I escaped his hands.
with toil and hardship, often in sleepless nights, with hunger and thirst, often going hungry, in cold and poorly clothed. Apart from these external things, [there is] the pressure on me every day of the anxiety about all the churches. Who is weak, and [I am] not weak? Who is caused to sin, and I do not burn [with indignation]? If it is necessary to boast, I will boast [about] {the things related to my weakness}. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed {forever}, knows that I am not lying. In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to take me into custody, and I was lowered through a window through the wall in a rope-basket, and I escaped his hands.