I thought in mine heart to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I should lead over my soul to wisdom, and that I would eschew folly, till I should see, what were profitable to the sons of men; in which deed the number of days of their life under the sun is needful.
For he that will make safe his life, shall lose it, [or Soothly whoso will make his soul, that is, his life, safe, shall lose it]; and he that loseth his life for me, and for the gospel, shall make it safe.
for not in vain these things be commanded to you, but that all men should live in doing those things; which if ye shall do, then ye shall abide, and shall continue long time in the land, to which ye shall enter to wield, when Jordan ye have over-passed.