Esther 4:13

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

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

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

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

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.

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

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; for that which was lacking on your part, they supplied.

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

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 Good News of the grace of God.

But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.

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

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;

Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction;

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you watch one hour?

For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

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

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

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.

He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.

She said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon.”

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 in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.

for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”

In those days Hezekiah was sick and dying. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order; for you will die, and not live.’ ”

I said, “Should a man like me flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”

But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”

When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

The Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?”

Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, will save it.

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”

The Pharisees therefore said to him, “You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”

The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?”

Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.

For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

So then death works in us, but life in you.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

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

For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

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.

But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.

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

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

Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”