For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

Now I do all things for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are loved for the fathers' sake.

Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.