Romans 5:7

¹³Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

¹⁶By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

⁴who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.

²⁴For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

⁵It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

²⁷The watchman said, “I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.” The king said, “He is a good man, and comes with good news.”

¹⁴David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. ¹⁵David said longingly, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

¹⁶The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and took it and brought it to David; but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD. ¹⁷He said, “Be it far from me, LORD, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?” Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

³But the people said, “You shall not go out, for if we flee away, they will not care for us, neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.”