Then Satan answered the LORD, "Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.

And do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not; for, behold, I am bringing evil upon all flesh, says the LORD; but I will give you your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go."

"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?

let him who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house;

And alas for those who are with child and for those who give suck in those days!

For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.

"But when you see the desolating sacrilege set up where it ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains;

and let him who is in the field not turn back to take his mantle.

But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

Indeed I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, in order that I may gain Christ