²⁴ For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

²⁵ For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

12 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

¹¹ It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: