Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

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

No, I tell you! But unless you repent, you will all perish as well!

No, I tell you! But unless you repent you will all perish as well!”

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Yet not a hair of your head will perish.

“Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it?

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is impossible that a prophet should be killed outside Jerusalem.’

but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

“Ha! Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God.”

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation.

Then when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’

But when he came to his senses he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again – he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”

People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,

He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they said, “May this never happen!”

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.