²⁵ Because whoever has a desire to keep his life safe will have it taken from him; but whoever gives up his life because of me, will have it given back to him.

³⁹ He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him.

¹¹ And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.

³⁵ Whoever has a desire to keep his life, will have it taken from him; and whoever gives up his life because of me and the good news, will keep it.

²³ Only that the Holy Spirit makes clear to me in every town that prison and pains are waiting for me.

²⁴ But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.

³³ If anyone makes an attempt to keep his life, it will be taken from him, but if anyone gives up his life, he will keep it.

²⁵ He who is in love with life will have it taken from him; and he who has no care for his life in this world will keep it for ever and ever.

¹⁴ If at this time you say nothing, then help and salvation will come to the Jews from some other place, but you and your father's family will come to destruction: and who is to say that you have not come to the kingdom even for such a time as this?

¹⁶ Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.