⁴² And whoever gives^(A) even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple,^[a](B) truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”

⁴¹ And whoever gives you a cup of water to drink^(A) in my name, because you belong to Christ^(B) —truly I tell you,^(C) he will never lose his reward.^(D)

¹⁸ but not a hair of your head will be lost.^(A)

¹⁶ For God loved^(A) the world in this way:^[a] He gave^[b] his one and only^(B) Son,^(C) so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.^(D)

²⁷ Don’t work for the food that perishes^(A) but for the food that lasts for eternal life,^(B) which the Son of Man^(C) will give you, because God the Father^(D) has set his seal of approval on him.”

³⁹ This is the will of him who sent me: that I should lose none of those he has given me but should raise^(A) them up on the last day.

¹² While I was with them, I was protecting them by your name that you have given me. I guarded^(A) them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction,^[a] so that the Scripture^(B) may be fulfilled.^(C)

⁹ This was to fulfill^(A) the words he had said: “I have not lost one of those you have given me.”^(B)

⁹ we are persecuted but not abandoned; we are struck down but not destroyed.