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

³⁹ He who finds his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

¹¹ They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.

³⁵ For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the Gospel's will save it.

²³ except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

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.

³³ Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

²⁵ He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

¹⁴ For if you altogether hold your peace at this time, then will relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish: and who knows whether you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

¹⁶ Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast you for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in to the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.