Luke 17:33Bible in Basic English
If anyone makes an attempt to keep his life, it will be taken from him, but if anyone gives up his life, he will keep it.
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Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
Genesis 2:9
And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:22
And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.
Genesis 2:23
And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.
Genesis 3:11
And he said, Who gave you the knowledge that you were without clothing? Have you taken of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take?