Matthew 16:25 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

²⁵ For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ For whoever is bent on saving his [temporal] life [his comfort and security here] shall lose it [eternal life]; and whoever loses his life [his comfort and security here] for My sake shall find it [life everlasting].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.

Common English Bible

²⁵ All who want to save their lives will lose them. But all who lose their lives because of me will find them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ For whoever would save his life, will lose it. But whoever will have lost his life for my sake, shall find it.

Matthew 16:25 Cross References

Matthew 10:39

Whoever finds his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 16:26

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his soul? Or what can a person give in exchange for his soul?

Mark 8:35

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the sake of the gospel will save it.

Luke 17:33

Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

John 12:25

Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Revelation 12:11

They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.