³⁰ Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.

²⁵ For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

¹ Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

² looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

³ For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.

⁴ You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;

¹⁴ Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

¹⁵ and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

² For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

¹⁵ having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

³⁰ because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

¹⁷ Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

⁸ And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

¹³ Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

²⁴ But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Gospel of the grace of God.

³⁸ For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,

³⁹ and they didn't know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

¹² For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

³ How long will you assault a man, Would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

³ Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?

⁵ That the triumphing of the wicked is short, The joy of the godless but for a moment?

¹⁵ He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith.

⁸ He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

¹⁹ The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave the changes [of clothing] to those who declared the riddle. His anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

¹⁵ I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."