²⁵ For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.

³⁹ Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.^(A)

³⁵ For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel,^[a] will save it.^(A)

²⁵ Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.^(A)

²³ except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.^{(A) 24} But I do not count my life of any value to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.^(B)

³³ Those who try to make their life secure will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep it.

¹⁶ “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. After that I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”^(A)

¹⁴ For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this.”