https://jpands.org/vol25no3/merritt.pdf

For what will it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and loses his own soul?

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that Christ speak are spirit, and they are life.

Verily,verily, I say unto you, He that hearth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.