Matthew 16:25 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it. Common English Bible 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 For whoever would save his life, will lose it. But whoever will have lost his life for my sake, shall find it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it. |
For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but thou and thy father's house shall perish: and who knoweth whether thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?
For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's shall save it.
Whosoever shall seek to gain his life shall lose it: but whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
He that loveth his life loseth it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.